July 5, 1862: AbbyHowland
Woolsey, a Northern woman, writes to her sister Eliza on this date:
It may be
God’s will to destroy this nation by inches. It is certainly the devil’s will
to put dissension into the hearts of our leaders, and blundering darkness into
their minds. God overrules all evil, even this, I suppose, to his own glory. I
have no question that this and all other defeats are intended to drive us, as a
nation, to a higher moral ground in the conduct and purpose of this war. As
things stand, the South is fighting to maintain slavery, and the North is
trying to fight so as not to put it down. When this policy ceases, perhaps we
shall begin to have victory, if we haven’t already sinned away our day of
grace. . . . Hatty and Carry went with the Bucks to Bedloe’s Island, with a tug
load of ice cream and cake, and flowers, and flags, and a chest of tea, forty
quarts of milk, and butter, and handkerchiefs, papers and books, to set out a
long table and give a treat to two hundred in hospital there.
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