DAILY INTELLIGENCER, [ATLANTA, GA], October 11, 1863, p. 2, c. 3

A Tribute to the Ladies of Georgia.

Quintard Hospital,

Griffin, Oct. 9, 1863.

At the earnest solicitation of the patients, in this hospital, I request a place in your columns to give some public expression of our gratitude for the kind attention we have receive from some of the ladies of this city. When the first notes of preparation for war were sounded, we left all and joined the army as volunteers. We have passed through many scenes of trial and suffering, of danger and death from Springfield to Gettysburg. We have regarded it a patriotic duty to fight for the rights and liberties of the sunny South, and against the aggressions of our barbarous foes. Some sick and some wounded on the bloody field of Chickamauga, we are consigned to the hospital. In suffering and pain, and at the same time far from home and all its endearments - from those loved voices that were wont to greet us there, we are prepared to appreciate the kindness of woman. – It is true that the physicians in attendance and the managers of the hospital are unusually attentive and prompt in the discharge of their duties. But the ladies of the place show an interest in the welfare of the soldier surpassing anything of the kind we have hitherto experienced in the Confederacy. They not only cheer us by their presence and encourage us by their words, thus reminding us of the loved ones at home, but they prepare for the more feeble among us those comforts in the way of food that the commissary cannot furnish. Even articles of clothing have been procured for those who needed them, and some able to read have been furnished with good books to while away the tedious hours of convalescence. -- In the name of the sick and wounded soldiers, who with tears have desired me to do so, I return their thanks to these ladies for their considerate kindness and attention. - As I write without their knowledge or desire, I trust they will pardon me for mentioning some of their names. We will always remember with gratitude these persons:

Mrs. Morrow, Miss Julia Morrow, Miss Lizzie Morrow, Mrs. Haire, Mrs. F. M. Ison, Mrs. M. M. Ison, Mrs. E. McLaurin, Hon. Mrs. Eason, Mrs. Worthy, Miss Jeanie Goodrum, Miss Clara Johnson, Miss Clara Fryer, Mrs. R. C. Jones, Mrs. Mollie Nelson, Mrs. J. C. King, Miss Lucy King, Miss Sue Daniel, & c.

Although we have suffered much we feel that we are engaged in a noble cause and are proud to fight in defence [sic] of such as have been so kind to us. We doubt not that they will be rewarded by the consciousness of having done good and heaven will smile upon their deeds. When the history of this war is written the heroic actions of the women of this Confederacy will be brought prominently to view. They have exemplified the sentiment of Burns, where he says:

"The brave poor soldier ne'er despise

Nor count him for a stranger

Remember he's his country's prize,

In day and hour of danger,

Bunk.

To the Women of Georgia.

Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 9, 1863.

You responded nobly to my first appeal to you for socks. But few anticipated the measure of our success. From *my heart* I thank you for what you have so cheerfully and so promptly done. You have enabled me to make many a war worn soldier bless the dear women at home, as he placed your love tokens on his weary feet.

Women of Georgia, and such others as contributed to my sock fund, in the name of over 10,000 soldiers, do I most cordially thank you. But you must enlarge the circle of your benefactions. God loves the cheerful giver and also the liberal soul. Let us devise and execute liberal things. It will take, besides what I have on hand, nearly 50,000 pair of socks to carry our Georgia *heroes* comfortably through the coming winter. Send in those already knit under my late call. Ship to me at this place as before directed. Organize *at once*, throughout Georgia, into Societies, and let your Secretaries, with the approval of your Presidents make requisitions on me for the number of bunches of yarn which each Society will undertake to work into socks. I hope to make arrangements for an ample supply of yarns for the purpose contemplated. Notify me of your nearest railroad point, and I will forward the yarn required. Continue to place the name upon each pair of socks knit and sent. I am keeping a *faithful* record of the names of my fair colleagues in this good work, with an account of the amount of work done by each one.  May I not hope to put upon every Georgian in the army needing them a good pair of socks before spring.  Methinks I hear a hundred thousand women, answering, Yes, send on your yarns; we will soon fill your the [sic] bill. - By the bloom which has lately been over us, let me exhort you to redoubled energies for those who are your *only preservers*, under God, from a far deeper gloom and an intolerable destiny.  By the groans of our wounded and the deaths of our noble sons on our battlefields all over the South, whose deeds of imperishable glory have illustrated names that mankind will not willingly let die, let me exhort you to strain every nerve to hold up the courage and strengthen the arms of those still surviving the shock of battle! By the brightness of the future, opened up by the glorious and God-given victory upon the banks of that stream of death, the now historic Chickamauga, let us thank God, take courage and press forward, till we conquer a peace. Let the loss of some dear father, husband, son, brother or *loved one,* nerve you to redoubled determination *never* to cease struggling till we are thoroughly and totally divorced form those whose hands are red with the best blood of the Confederate States. - Cheer our soldiers, discourage desertions, hurry off able bodied furloughed men to the front and stimulate them to prefer honorable deaths in the face of the enemy, to dishon - lives [sic] prolonged by shrinking from duty. -- Women of Georgia, you have done much in our great and bloody struggle. You can and  will do much more,  and your heroism will be admired wherever and as long as true patriotism shall find a lodgment in the human heart. Let the example of the three patriots of Switzerland, headed by the heroic William Tell, who took a solemn vow to cease not in their efforts until Switzerland was free from the horrid tyranny of the infamous Gasler; *fire* our hearts to choose annihilation rather than subjugation. The one will give us an honorable record, the other a sickly existence under the most abhorrent of despotisms. The one is the result of a noble self respect, the other the fruit of a degraded self-abasement.

Rather than yield when our men fail us, let us have multiplied examples of the Maid of Orleans, who when wounded by an arrow, drew out the arrow, exclaiming, "It is glory, not blood which flows from the wound."

But I need not write about yielding, with an humble reliance upon the God of battles, if we, men and women, will but do our duty before another year shall roll over us, the bloody sword will likely be sheathed, and the bright banner of peace will gloriously waive over our ransomed homes.

Ira R. Foster,

Q. M. Gen. of Georgia.

All papers in the State are requested to give the above one or two inertions and much oblige our Georgia soldiers.