Towns in the Deep South remained fiercely loyal and supportive of the Confederate Army throughout the Civil War. In this letter, Confederate Pvt. William Elisha Stoker's Texas regiment encountered a group of women from an academy in Louisiana whom, after one gave a speech that supported the soldiers, "presented us a flag". The women also tended to the wounded and "waitted on them like brothers". Stoker also referred again to when he attempted and failed to gain a grant for leave, and described himself as "the worst cut down fellow that you ever saw". (By Shane Harding)
William Elisha Stoker to Elizabeth E. Stoker, January 3, 1864
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