Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Some of the schoolmarms who . . .

. . . went to South Carolina several weeks ago, are not so intent upon “teaching the young idea how to shoot,” as upon flirting with the officers, in a manner not entirely consistent with morality. Gen. Hunter is going to send some of the misbehaving misses home.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 3, 1862, p. 3

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