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The Daily Dispatch: August 4, 1863., [Electronic resource], Mules and rats (search)
Mules and rats The garrison at Port Hudson, it is said, had recourse to rats as a part of their diet in the last period of the siege. Rats and mules afforded the only variety in the closing entertainments. The mule meat is said to have been fine, and by a lively effort of the imagination has been likened to venison. The rats, also, were good, except that like the garrison, they had been put upon quarter rations. We thus see that all creatures, even rats, have their uses in the creatio. These creatures have their uses. Those of them who are cleanly and not diseased from vices and too great obesity, are in death rescued from an end better than their beginning. If ever the Confederate capital is besieged like Vicksburg and Port Hudson, we shall not live on mules, but rats, and rats both quadruped and biped. Like famished mariners upon a wreck, we shall overcome all scruples against eating fat dogs, healthy mules, or fat rats, whether they go upon two legs or four. The pub