From Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: Fort Sumter to Perryville (384):
Part at least of the study and reflection was devoted to composing other phrases which [Pierre Gustave Toutant de Beauregard] considered descriptive of the enemy who had wronged him. “That living specimen of gall and hatred,” he called [Jefferson] Davis now; “that Individual.”
Posted on April 23rd, 2006 by Scott Granneman
Filed under: history, language & literature
