. . . punishes with imprisonment in the calaboose any women of the
town found in the streets after nightfall, or who may converse from the windows
of their houses with persons outside.
And this is the punishment accorded to women who may insult our soldiers
under the
proclamation, so the squeamish ones who have been so exercised over the
order, can bottle up their sympathy for use on future occasions.
– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye,
Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, June 7, 1862, p. 2
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