Ask your fishmonger or oyster shucker about the harvest date. It can be found on the bag tag, which is a slip of paper that comes in every bag of oysters. Growers are required to provide them and sellers are required to keep them on hand. Myth #2: Oysters are delicious, but not that nutritious.
General view of the burned district of Richmond (Library of Congress). On May 20 [1861], the Confederate Congress voted to move the government to Richmond...With that, Virginia's capital had become the very symbol of the Confederacy, and the ultimate prize in a bloody war.
The Civil War continues to attract attention because it was a struggle of mythic proportions. The ferocity of combat in the Civil War defies belief. At Spotsylvania Court House in Virginia in 1864, the rifle fire was so intense it cut down a tree two feet thick. After the battle men were found on the battlefield unharmed but sound asleep; they simply collapsed on their feet from exhaustion.