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Gen. Lee's Bill of Fare.

--The Richmond correspondent of the Mobile Advertiser gives the following about Gen. Lee's mode of living:

‘ In Gen. Lee's tent meat is eaten but twice a week, the General not allowing it oftener, because he believes indulgence in meat to be criminal in the present straitened condition of the country. His ordinary dinner consists of a head of cabbage boiled in salt water, and a pone of corn bread. In this connection rather a comic story is told. Having invited a number of gentlemen to dine with him, Gen. Lee, in a fit of extravagance, ordered a sumptuous repast of cabbage and middling. The dinner was served, and behold! a great pile of cabbage and a bit of middling about four inches long and two inches across. The guests, with commendable politeness, unanimously declined middling, and it remained in the dish untouched. Next day Gen. Lee remembering the delicate tidbit which had been so providentially preserved, ordered his servant to bring "that-middling." The man hesitated, scratched his head, and finally owned up. "De fac is, Masse Robert, dat ar middlin' was borrid middlin'; we all did'n had har spec; and I done paid it back to de man whar I got it from." Gen. Lee heaved a sigh of deepest disappointment, and pitched into his cabbage.

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The Daily Dispatch: April 28, 1864. Richmond Dispatch. 2 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 28, 1864. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

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