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The Daily Dispatch: July 22, 1862., [Electronic resource], From the North. (search)
slowly and gracefully as she had ever done in the old days when she presided in her salon at Washington. Frequently she would raise her glass to one eye and scan the objects around the office. A notice on the door especially attracted her attention, and afforded her particular amusement. It reads thus, "There is no difference between a he and she adder, in their venom." After she had been removed from the office she sent back a request that she might be exiled instead of being sent to Ship Island. Mrs. Phillips is a rather fine looking woman, and was dressed very neatly in white throughout. The funeral, which took place on Saturday evening, resulted in a scene so shocking that it is difficult to believe that it occurred in the nineteenth century, among a people who profess to be not only civilized, but Christianized. As the cortege moved through the streets, women, in the garb of ladies, flaunted secession badges, and mocked and jeered at the poor dead body of a brave boy, w