... 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, wh...