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1st (search for this): chapter 34
d dashing young aide, equally noted --for influence at division-headquarters, which sent him constantly to Richmond; and for persistent devotion, when there, to a sharpwitted belle with a great fortune. One night he appeared at a soiree in brand new uniform, his captain's bars replaced by the major's star on the collar. The belle, leaning on his arm wearily, was pouting; when another passed and said: I congratulate you, major. And what are your new duties? The officer hesitated only one instant, but that was fatal; for the lady on his arm softly lisped: Oh! he is Mrs. General--‘s commissary, with the rank of major! It is needless to add that the epigram-unjust as it was-had its effect; and the belle was no more besieged. But of all the bright coteries in Richmond society-its very arcanum of wit, brilliance and culture-rises to memory that wholly unique set, that came somehow to be called the Mosaic Club. Organization it was none; only a clique of men and womenmar-ried
July, 1863 AD (search for this): chapter 34
t, reduced to direst straits of hunger within — the supreme rebel humor rose above nature; and men toiled and starved, fought their hopeless fight and died — not with the stoicism of the fatalist, but with the cheerfulness of duty well performed! And when Vicksburg fell, a curious proof of this was found; a manuscript bill-of-fare, surmounted by rough sketch of a mule's head crossed by a human hand holding a Bowie-knife. That memorable menu reads: Hotel de Vicksburg, bill of fare, for July, 1863. Soup: Mule tail. Boiled Mule bacon, with poke greens; muleham, canvassed. Roast: Mule sirloin; mule rump, stuffed with rice; saddleof-mule, à l'armee. Vegetables: Boiled rice; rice, hard boiled; hard rice, any way. Entrees: Mule head, stuffed à la Reb; mule beef, jerked à la Yankie; mule ears, fricasseed à la getch; mule side, stewed-new style, hair on; mule liver, hashed à l'explosion. side Dishes: Mule salad; mule hoof, soused; mule brains l'omelette; mule kidn
1492 AD (search for this): chapter 34
n; mule liver, hashed à l'explosion. side Dishes: Mule salad; mule hoof, soused; mule brains l'omelette; mule kidneys, braises on ramrod; mule tripe, on half (Parrot) shell; mule tongue, cold, à la Bray. Jellies: Mule foot (3-to-yard); mule bone, à la trench. Pastry: Rice pudding, pokeberry sauce; cottonwood-berry pie, à la iron-clad; chinaberry tart. dessert: White-oak acorns; beech-nuts; blackberry-leaf tea; genuine Confederate coffee. liquors: Mississippi water, vintage 1492, very superior, $3; limestone water, late importation, very fine, $3.75; spring water, Vicksburg bottled up, $4. Meals at few hours. Gentlemen to wait upon themselves. Any inattention in service should be promptly reported at the office. Jeff Davis & Co., Proprietors. Card: The proprietors of the justly-celebrated Hotel de Vicksburg, having enlarged and refitted the same, are now prepared to accommodate all who may favor them with a call. Parties arriving by the river, or by
August (search for this): chapter 34
olding them like lead? Bold and erect the Caledonian stood, but how long do you think he would have been bold, if they had stewed his rare beef for him? No, sir! mark my words: the nation that stews its beefsteaks contracts its boundaries! As for an omelette- Say no more, will! broke in the colonel solemnly. After the war, come to my club and we'll dine-egad, sir! for a week! That invincible pluck of the southron, which carried him through starvation and the sweltering march of August, through hailing shot and shell, and freezing mud of midwinter camps — was unconquered even after the surrender. Equally invincible was that twin humor, which laughed amid all these and bore up, even in defeat. Some of the keenest hits of all the war-tinctured though they be with natural bitterness — are recalled from those days, when the beaten, but defiant, Rebel was passing under the victor's yoke. Surprising, indeed, to its administrators must have been the result of the oath, forc
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