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The 14th Connecticut celebrated St. Patrick's Day, 1864 while in winter encampment near Stony Mountain, V.A. with a day off from drill and fatigue duties. They descended upon the "spacious lecture room, which sometimes [was] used as a music hall for our splendid band to practice in, and still less often for the holding of divine service" to host a day filled with musicals and tableaux vivants.
On the program was a tableaux called "The Hebrew Children; or, Isaac and Levi" which was performed to the band playing the Chorus: "Where, oh! where are the Hebrew Children?"
Of this particular tableaux, E.B., the correspondent from the 14th for the Connecticut War Record noted:
"This tableaux was exceedingly well received, and the only fault which I noticed was the anachronism of Levi wearing a pair of spectacles, the invention of which, if my memory serves me, is of a later date than the time of Levi."
Wonder if he snapped back, "If he had them, he would have used them!"
[From The Connecticut War Record, New Haven, C.T., Volume 1, pg 196.]
On the program was a tableaux called "The Hebrew Children; or, Isaac and Levi" which was performed to the band playing the Chorus: "Where, oh! where are the Hebrew Children?"
Of this particular tableaux, E.B., the correspondent from the 14th for the Connecticut War Record noted:
"This tableaux was exceedingly well received, and the only fault which I noticed was the anachronism of Levi wearing a pair of spectacles, the invention of which, if my memory serves me, is of a later date than the time of Levi."
Wonder if he snapped back, "If he had them, he would have used them!"
[From The Connecticut War Record, New Haven, C.T., Volume 1, pg 196.]
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