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May 5, 1863, Savannah Republican (Georgia)

            A correspondent of the Richmond Sentinel says a young lady in Winchester, Va., went to Milroy to get a permit to buy forage for her father’s cow, when the general asked:
            “Are you loyal?”
            “Yes,” she replied.
            He began to write the permit.
            “To the United States or the Confederate States?”
            “To the Confederate States, of course,” she replied.
            “Then I shall give no permit.  This infamous rebellion must be crushed.”
            “Well,” said she, “if you can crush it by starving John Arnold’s old cow, do it and be drot to you!”