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Thomas C. DeLeon, Four years in Rebel capitals: an inside view of life in the southern confederacy, from birth to death., Chapter 33: wit and humor of the war. (search)
Chapter 33: wit and humor of the war. Strange laughter the Confederate mother Goose travesty and satire the Charles Lamb of Richmond camp wit novel Marriage a Skirmisher prison humor even in Vicksburg! sad bill-of-fare northern Misconception Richmond society wit the Mosaic Club and its components Innes Randolph's Forfeit the Colonel's breakfast horror Post-surrender humor even the emancipated. If it be true that Sir Philip Sidney, burning with fever of his death-wound, reproved the soldier who brought him water in his helmet, that he wasted a casque-full on a dying man, then humor borrowed largely of heroism. Many a ragged rebel-worn with hunger and anxiety for the cause, or for those absent loved ones who suffered for it — was as gallant as Sidney in the fray; many a one bore his bitter trial with the same gay heart. We have seen that the southron, war-worn, starving, could pour out his soul in noble song. Equally plain is it, that he rose in def