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.
