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Women and firearms in the Confederate South.
http://dixieoutfitters.com/p/girls-and-guns?ol=no&pi=2664&ri=2649Bellville [TX] Countryman, May 22, 1861, p. 3, c. 5
The Goliad Messenger says all persons there, old and young-even including the ladies-are practicing the use of fire arms-therefore Abraham is a gone sucker.
Dallas Herald, May 22, 1861, p. 2, c. 5
The Rusk Enquirer says that a number of young ladies of Cherokee County have formed themselves into a corps of sharpshooters, for rifle practice. At their first practice, they had an effigy of Old Abe, for a target, which they completely riddled with bullets. The Enquirer adds: "Talk about wiping out a people whose women and children are expert rifle and pistol shooters! The idea is absurd."
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Things they will call evils;
They differ enormously about what evils
They will call excusable." - G.K. Chesterton
"It starts when you begin to overlook bad manners. Anytime you quit hearing "sir" and "ma'am", the end is pretty much in sight."-Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men
Private John Walker Roberts CSA 19th Battalion Georgia Cavalry - Loyalty is a most precious trait - RIP
