...omed in their ears, and all deprivation, all deficiencies were looked on as a sacrifice to the southern cause. I remember going to starvation party during the war with a Miss M., a sister of Amelie Rives 's mother. She wore a dress belonging to her great-grandmother or grandmother, and she looked regally handsome in it. She was a young lady of rare beauty, and as thoroughbred in every feature of her...