With no wish whatever to conceal her opinions, she openly avowed that she was a Union woman.

This was enough.
After being persecuted during the day, she was put in charge of a committee of rebel women for the night, with a promise of more violent treatment on the morrow.

The loyalty of the negroes of the South, during the severest hours of the rebellion, reflects the greatest possible credit on the race.

Through their assistance, hundreds of Union men were enabled to make their escape from prisons, and thousands kept from starvation when on their way to the Federal lines, or while keeping out of the way of rebel recruiting gangs.

They seldom, if ever, hesitated to do the white Unionists a service, at the risk even of life, and, under the most trying circumstances, revealed a devotion and a spirit of self-sacrifice that were heroic.