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.
1 3:1 Ratio of Confederate deaths to Union deaths. 2  9:1 Ratio of African American Civil War troops who died of disease to those that died on the battlefield, largely due to discriminatory medical care. 3  200 Number of African American soldiers massacred following their surrender at Ft. Pillow, Tennessee on April 12, 1864.