Last evening mother and Miriam went to the Arsenal to see if
they would be allowed to do anything for the prisoners. General Williams
received them, and fascinated Miriam by his manner, as usual. Poor Miriam is
always being fascinated, according to her own account. He sent for little
Nathan Castle and Willie Garig, and left them alone in the room with them,
showing his confidence and delicacy by walking away. The poor young men were
very grateful to be remembered; one had his eyes too full of tears to speak.
Mr. Garig told Miriam that when the story of her refusing the escort was told
in camp, the woods rang with shouts of “Three cheers for Miss Morgan!” They
said they were treated very well, and had no want, except clean clothes, and to
let their mothers know they were well and content. I have been hard at work
mending three or four suits of the boys' clothing for those poor young men.
Some needed thread and needle very much, but it was the best we could do. So I
packed them all up — not forgetting a row of pins — and sent Tiche off with the
bundle, perched real Congo fashion on her many-colored head-handkerchief, which
was tied in the most superb Creole style in honor of the occasion.
SOURCE: Sarah Morgan Dawson, A Confederate Girl's
Diary, p. 75-6
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