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Found this while reading "A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents - Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready" by James M. Perry, pg. 191.
The quote refers to a meal enjoyed by various members of the "Jolly Congress" (foreign military observers, journalists, etc) at the Oriental Saloon in Richmond (?).
"Ross remembered the night von Borcke and several friends, nine of them altogether, 'carried us off to the Oriental Saloon, where we had a capital supper, and sat talking till a late hour.' Ross included in his memoirs the Oriental's menu and a copy of the bill of fair included seven soups (terrapin, turtle, mock turtle, and macaroni among them); four fowls (turkey goose, duck, chicken); five meats (beef, mutton, lamb, pork, and veal); five steaks; seven fish; four kinds of oysters; six birds (including robin); fifteen vegetables; five wines; five whiskeys; three malt liquors; and various Havana cigars.
The party of nine consumed soup, venison steak, seven birds, various vegetables, and five bottles of Madeira and six bottles of claret. The bill, in Confederate money, came to $631.50."
Greetings,
Found this while reading "A Bohemian Brigade: The Civil War Correspondents - Mostly Rough, Sometimes Ready" by James M. Perry, pg. 191.
The quote refers to a meal enjoyed by various members of the "Jolly Congress" (foreign military observers, journalists, etc) at the Oriental Saloon in Richmond (?).
"Ross remembered the night von Borcke and several friends, nine of them altogether, 'carried us off to the Oriental Saloon, where we had a capital supper, and sat talking till a late hour.' Ross included in his memoirs the Oriental's menu and a copy of the bill of fair included seven soups (terrapin, turtle, mock turtle, and macaroni among them); four fowls (turkey goose, duck, chicken); five meats (beef, mutton, lamb, pork, and veal); five steaks; seven fish; four kinds of oysters; six birds (including robin); fifteen vegetables; five wines; five whiskeys; three malt liquors; and various Havana cigars.
The party of nine consumed soup, venison steak, seven birds, various vegetables, and five bottles of Madeira and six bottles of claret. The bill, in Confederate money, came to $631.50."
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