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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Poetry and Incidents., Volume 5. (ed. Frank Moore), Capture of New-Orleans — what Judith saw the day of the capture. (search)
f, we still continued waving our pocket handkerchief and bidding them good-by. A man said to my sister: Give me the handkerchief and I will wave it for you. My sister thanked him, and said she could wave it herself. She knew it was his intention to throw it into the river. As we came further on, we noticed two young girls, one of them waving a small confederate flag, and calling out to them--Go back, you dirty Yankee devils; go back where you came from. I asked, Where are the dirty (not Yankee, but) secession devils? and echo answered, there; and looking around I saw that it was those two young girls, the one still holding the flag and calling them names, and the other one assisting her. At last we left them, and returned home about six in the evening. We passed through Annunciation Square, which but a short while ago had been filled with tents and traitors, but now vacant. Only here and there could be seen some poor woman picking up some wood and bottles that were left by the b