Dear Mr. Seagrave:
According to my book, Charlottesville and The University of Virginia In The Civil War (Lynchburg, Virginia: H. E. Howard, 1988), page 31, "starvation parties" were "gatherings at which refreshments were not served." My source was Josephine Cleary Wimsatt, Recollections (Tientsin, China: Printed by North China Star Press, 1926), page 22.
Prof. Ervin L. Jordan, Jr. (Associate Professor)
Research Archivist, University of Virginia
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Subject: 'Starvation Ball'
I looking for a primary source where in the term 'Starvation Ball' is used there
in prior to the end of the War Between the State.
Thank You, Ronald R. Seagrave, President
Greater Petersburg Historical Society of Virginia, Inc.
www.gphsva.org
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