Copied from Texas Civilian Yahoo list. Posted August 2007 by Vicki Betts
One last quote from Austin, November 20, 1861, Letitia Walton is
writing back to one of the family slaves in Mississippi. This is on page 260:
"Two young ladies took dinner with me today. I had bacon and cabbage, roast beef, fried chicken, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, tomatoes, and onions, bread, butter and milk. Sally [slave] gave us dinner at 3 o'clock, fashionable she was, and Lizzie [slave] picked the chicken for her too and no dessert. I raised all the vegetables except sweet potatoes and could have had four other kinds of vegetables. The Irish potatoes come up themselves where I had potatoes dug in the
summer."
One last quote from Austin, November 20, 1861, Letitia Walton is
writing back to one of the family slaves in Mississippi. This is on page 260:
"Two young ladies took dinner with me today. I had bacon and cabbage, roast beef, fried chicken, Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, beets, tomatoes, and onions, bread, butter and milk. Sally [slave] gave us dinner at 3 o'clock, fashionable she was, and Lizzie [slave] picked the chicken for her too and no dessert. I raised all the vegetables except sweet potatoes and could have had four other kinds of vegetables. The Irish potatoes come up themselves where I had potatoes dug in the
summer."
