Thursday, May 1, 2014

May 2, 1864---Jeff Davis' Bull



MAY 2, 1864:     

Even as the Red River Campaign falls apart, the Gray continues to battle the Blue in a busy series of small, nameless, bloody and mortal skirmishes.

The Confederate Congress is mandated by its Constitution to meet once every second year. Its Second Session opens today with a long, windy address by C.S. President Jefferson Davis. Davis admits that the country has given up any hope for international recognition, but then contradicts himself utterly by saying that the prospects for winning the war and achieving independence (with concomitant international recognition) have never been brighter. It is not known whether any Confederate Congressmen made shoveling motions during the speech, but 19th Century decorum probably precluded it. 


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