nary a dissident among them?
Gutsy Lady
From the Richmond Daily Dispatch August 15, 1862:
Arrest of a female in Washington.
During the progress of the late Union demonstration at Washington, it is stated that–
A lady in the crowd was arrested for “speaking in a manner which annoyed loyal persons around her.” After being taken by the provost guard to the guard-house, and an examination made, she was allowed to go on parole, the testimony to be submitted to the Provost Marshal in the meantime. Her friends, she said, were in Richmond, but her husband in the Federal army.
This image and an article about the pro-war meeting in Washington, D.C. on August 6. 1862 was published in the August 23, 1862 issue of Harper’s Weekly and is hosted at Son of the South. The article mostly reports President Lincoln’s remarks. He basically said that everything was hunky-dory between General McClellan and his administration. An example:
General McClellan’s attitude is such that in the very selfishness of his nature he can not but wish to be successful —and I hope he will—and the Secretary of War is precisely in the same situation.
