How baking a fish helped shorten a war...
I guess shad is better than no food at all.
Had they cooked it electrically, it could have been the Shad-Shock Redemption.
On this day in 2017, I had lox and cream cheese on a bagel for breakfast. Now I’m ready for war.
My greatgrandfather and his brothers served under Fitzhugh Lee.
I’m going to the Occoquan River (Potomac tributary) today to see if the shad are running. When it’s hot, there is no better fishing for me. Like mini tarpon. On a few occasions over the years, I’ve caught so many shad in one day that my arms wore out and I had to quit. I stopped counting, but I guess I caught close to 100 fish. So much fun.
http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/pickett_george_e_1825-1875
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Pickett rejoined the Army of Northern Virginia in May 1864, even regaining his old division, but nothing was the same. The last ignoble chapter of his military career came on April 1, 1865. At the Battle of Five Forks, Union troops successfully attacked Lee’s right flank, ending their ten-month siege and forcing the fall of Petersburg and the Confederate capital of Richmond. Pickett, however, left his troops poorly positioned for the fight when he left the lines for an infamously long lunch—a shad bake with Fitzhugh Lee, Robert E. Lee’s nephew. The “food was abundant,” the historian Douglas Southall Freeman has written, and “the affair was leisured and deliberate as every feast should be.” In the meantime, the battle was lost and Pickett was removed from command. The surrender at Appomattox Court House came just eight days later, on April 9.
“In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand
to live and die in Dixie.”
Thanks for the post. Picked up quite a bit that I did not know about General Pickett.