The following editorial might very well have been published nearer the time in May 1863 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony organized the Woman’s National Loyal League (or the Women’s Loyal National League) in New York City. Nevertheless, it seems appropriate to get it out toward the end of 1863, a year that began with the Emancipation Proclamation.
From a Seneca County, New York newspaper sometime in 1863:
A Woman’s Regiment.
Mrs. ELIZABETH CADY STANTON, President, and Mrs. SUSAN B. ANTHONY, Secretary, are out in a long address to soldiers, exhorting them not to mind the negroes, but receive them as fellow soldiers. The soldiers, beyond all question, would receive a regiment of women, or even these women, as fellow soldiers. Why not act, and form the regiment, in lieu of mere writing or talking? – Express.
Unfortunately, women were not allowed to fight with the U.S. military 150 years ago.
meeting of liberating minds
The statue “When Anthony Met Stanton” in Seneca Falls, NY, USA represents Amelia Bloomer’s 1851 introduction of Susan B. Anthony (left) to Elizabeth Cady Stanton (right).
You can read more about the Stanton/Anthony Friendship here
The Express might be the New York evening express
