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    "title": "\"Before the Red Cross\" Leaflet",
    "description": "This item is a leaflet that contains the personal reminiscences of Mrs. Richard Aldrich (formerly Louisa Lee Schuyler) and Mrs. William B. Rice (formerly Gertrude Stevens) regarding their experiences and service with the U.S. Sanitary Commission.",
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    "ocrText": "but the most heavily upon the soldier. For it has\nsaddened and when the streets had so often \"re-\nbeen said that all that a man hath will he give for\nechoed to the funeral tread.\" As a result of the meet-\nhis life, and while all contribute of their substance,\ning, several hundred women pledged themselves to\n\"abstain from the purchase of foreign luxuries, mir-\nthe\nit\nup soldier in his puts country's his life cause. at stake In this and extraordinary often yields\nrors, bric-a-brac, laces and jewels during the continua-\nwar extraordinary developments have manifested\ntion of the war.'\nthemselves, and among these manifestations noth-\ning has been more remarkable than these fairs for\nthe relief of the suffering soldiers and their fam-\nilies, and the chief agents in these fairs are the\nwomen of America. I am not accustomed to the\nlanguage of eulogy ; I have never studied the\nart of paying compliments to women; but I must\nsay that if all that has been said by the orators\nWeave no more silks, ye Lyons looms,\nand poets since the creation of the world in praise\nTo deck our girls for gay delights ;\nof women were applied to the women of America,\nFor the red flower of battle blooms,\nit would not do them justice for their conduct dur-\nAnd solemn marches fill the nights.\ning this war. God bless the women of America !\"\nWhen the Civil War ended, and the time at last\nWeave but the Flag whose bars today\ncame for Miss Schuyler to bid farewell to her be-\nDroop heavy o'er our early dead,\nloved Aid Societies, she did so in words of sincerest\nAnd sombre garments, coarse and gray,\nemotion, expressing her personal gratitude to her\nFor orphans that must earn their bread.\nco-workers for the inspiration she had received\nfrom their true and steadfast patriotism. \"As mem-\nKeep back your tunes, ye viols sweet,\nbers of this branch of the United States Sanitary\nThat pour delights from other lands;\nCommission,\" she wrote, \"we have been brought\nRouse there the dancer's restless feet-\ninto immediate contact on the one hand with the\nThe trumpet leads our warrior bands.\nearnest, active minds of the officers of the Com-\nmission, and on the other with the most patriotic,\nYe Sibyl Arts, in one stern knot\nthe most earnest, the noblest hearted men and\nBe all your offices combined ;\nwomen from among our people. It is impos-\nStand close, while Courage draws the lot,\nsible to be engaged with such a cause and for\nThe destiny of humankind !\nso long a time without feeling one's own nature\nelevated and deepened.\"\nAnd if that destiny could fail,\nThe sun should darken in the sky ;\nToward the end of the war Miss Schuyler took a\nThe eternal bloom of Nature fail,\nleading part in calling another large meeting of\nAnd God, and Truth, and Freedom, die!\nwomen at Cooper Union to consider the question of\nwar economy, particularly in the matter of dress. Pro-\nA poem by Julia Ward Howe, published in The\nfessor Hitchcock, Mr. William E. Dodge, and Mr.\nAtlantic Monthly for July, 1861, seven months before\nPeter Cooper addressed this women's meeting. Pro-\nthe \"Battle Hymn of the Republic.\"\nfessor Hitchcock spoke with much feeling. He\ndoubted if any patriotic woman could be found in that\naudience who would be willing \"to sweep the streets\nwith Lyons velvet, or to go flashing up and down\nBroadway in costly jewels,\" when so many faces were\n29\n28"
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