"Ladies, with high beating-hearts and pulses throbbing with emotion, we receive from your hands this beautiful flag, the proud emblem of our young republic ... To those who may return from the field of battle bearing this flag in triumph, though perhaps tattered and torn, this incident will always prove a cheering recollection and to him who may die a soldiers death, this moment brought before his fading view will recall your kind and sympathetic words ..." etc., etc., etc.
Original Source: New Orleans Daily Crescent, April 29, 1861.
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