Wednesday, August 14, 2013

August 15, 1863---The Fair Sex



AUGUST 15, 1863:        

Lieutenant John Wilkinson, C.S.N., skipper of the blockade runner Lee, departs from Wilmington, North Carolina, praising the bravery of his female passengers:

 My observation of the conduct of the fair sex, under trying and novel circumstances, has convinced me that they face inevitable dangers more bravely and with more composure than men. I have frequently seen a frail, delicate woman standing erect and unflinching upon the deck, as the shells were whistling and bursting over us, while her lawful protector would be cowering ‘under the lee’ of a cotton bale.”


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