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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": "the founders of the Cincinnati. Together they\nbecame leaders in the war activities of the\nTHE WAR\nNew York branch of the United States Sani-\ntary Commission, and are to-day its sole sur-\nThe tension felt at the North during the months\nviving members.\nwhich intervened between the election of Mr. Lincoln\nin November, 1860, and his inauguration in March,\nThe personal reminiscences contained in\n1861, is vividly remembered by Mrs. Rice and by Miss\nthis leaflet were taken from the lips of Miss\nSchuyler. As one by one southern states, led by South\nSchuyler and of Mrs. Rice in their own homes\nCarolina assembled in state convention and solemnly\nin New York amid old-time surroundings.\nand deliberately withdrew from the Union, as the ar-\nsenals and custom houses of the United States were\nThe historical material relating to the Com-\nlost to the central government, as southern senators\nmission has been drawn chiefly from reports\nand representatives failed to appear in their usual\nand letters in specially bound volumes which\nplaces in Washington, the doubts and uncertainties\nthese ladies cherish. The faded records of\nwhich filled the minds of men of the highest public and\ncommittees and of meetings are for them eter-\nsocial standing were reflected in the conversation of\ntheir homes and in that of the intimate circle of their\nnally young and infinitely human because\nacquaintance. The attitude of their own city in the\nforever invested with the glow of patriotic\nevent of war was for some time considered an open\nemotion which led them when young girls to\nquestion. There were those who believed that New\ndedicate themselves to the service of their\nYork would never fight the South because of the ruin\ncountry, as you without reserve are dedicating\nit would bring upon prosperous and honorable citizens.\nWashington was naturally full of southern sym-\nyourselves to-day.\npathizers. Calamity was on the wing; indeed it\nwas already come. Yet Miss Schuyler remembers that\nwhen on April 14th the \"overt act\" was committed\nwhich precipitated war the news was received by\nmany in the North with surprise, almost with incre-\ndulity.\nIn the quiet of her drawing room in New York,\nsurrounded by significant mementoes of the past,\nMiss Schuyler recalled the experiences of those\ndistant days, \"It was on a bright Sunday morn-\ning in April of 1861 when the news reached New\nYork that Fort Sumter had been attacked. The\nnews came as a shock. We could scarcely believe\nit true. I remember sitting in our parlor, sad at\nheart, when an old lady of colonial descent and\nardent spirit entered the house. Breathless with\nexcitement she exclaimed as she came into the\nroom: 'Mr. Schuyler, what are you going to do?\nAre you men going to sit still while the flag is fired\nupon? What are you going to do?' 'Madam,' he\nreplied, bowing to her with old-fashioned courtesy,\n'we are going to wait for the President's proclamation,\n4\n5"
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