Weekly Arkansas Gazette
Little Rock
May 4, 1861
The patriotic ladies of Little Rock have converted the Theatre Hall into a manufactory of clothes for our citizen soldiery. We dropped in on Thursday evening and saw them engaged in their patriotic work. They had made two hundred round jackets and over seventy-five pairs of pants for soldiers who are getting ready to go to Virginia. As fast as soldiers arrive who need clothing they will be supplied. While this is an evidence of the spirit of loyalty to the South which pervades, it also bears testimony, of such thing were necessary, to the universal patriotism of woman—that she is first to espouse the cause of the country and last to abandon it.