[varina davis]

Yet, in the midst of this critical food shortage, that same month, Mary Boykin Chesnut attended a party given by Varina Davis for the elite ladies of Richmond society in which the table fare was described as "gumbo, ducks and olives, supreme de volaille, chickens in jelly, oysters, lettuce salad, chocolate jelly cake, claret soup, champagne, &c&c&c." (31 January 1864 diary entry in Woodward's MARY CHESNUT'S CIVIL WAR). Several of those menu items were imported luxury items. Why didn't Lee take direct action in such circumstances?

Are you suggesting that Gen. Lee should have ordered his troops to storm the Confederate White House in Richmond and snatch food from the table of his president?

Is that what happened during the first revolution?

You are obviously learned, but also obviously totally ignorant of Southern culture. The fact that Southern leaders fought with honor is why their "cause" is preserved in the hearts of their descendants.

It's a Southern thing and some folks may never understand.

[WhiskeyPapa]

You are obviously learned, but also obviously totally ignorant of Southern culture.

Well, I don't have a commie flag tacked up on the wall of my garage, as the song has it.

I've been getting southern culture through my skin for about 46 years now. I thought Nashville was too far north.

Walt