I was detailed for
picket again this morning, and the post I drew stationed me on the bottom land.
It began to rain late in the afternoon and continued into the night and I was
soon standing in water. I tell you, it is poor comfort on picket. The
commanding officer banished three women from our lines today. The case against
them grew out of a meeting on last Thanksgiving Day. They attended the meeting
held in the Presbyterian church and when the minister prayed for the President
of the United States, for the success of our arms, and for the Stars and
Stripes, saying, “May they continue to float over the land of the free and the
home of the brave,” the three women got up and indignantly walked out. They
were banished for disloyal conduct.
Source: Alexander G.
Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 160
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