Trivia Advent Calendar

[RJNorton]

the menu at A. Lincoln's second inauguration ball here:

Please excuse as I may have posted this once before. That second inaugural ball was interesting. Carl Sandburg described it this way - "Three hundred at a time could be accommodated at the feast table, but there were 5,000 guests at the supper. This created disorder - a "crush." Many were like one gentleman "with a large plate of food, requiring both hands to hold it, no place to sit down, and no way to eat it."