toodaloop toodaloop ... (Southern Confederate uppers accent, but not too uppers, another eyewitness to these accounts, yet some one said William Faulkner was one of the nicest old ladies he ever met) ... a voice is heard of dialogue and coffee ... "it was about 11:30 in the morning of Sunday April 4th, near the Carthusian hours in France, yet not that close to be an Italianate Papist, yet the Angelus of Christian confession would be at St. Paul's Cathedral too, Richmiond, Virginia, of course, when and where our gracious President Davis, deep in prayer and recollection, received word in a letter from General Lee that Petersburg would have to be abandoned ... because of the Yankees. Yet evan as the occurrence naturally probably attracted attention, since the people had been so beleaguered so often, with enough already, and had known the angst to receive notice of threatened attacks, yet the congregation of St. Paul's was too refined, to make a scene at anticipated danger, so we all remained at prayers and biscuits." cf. Memoirs Memoirs, and the River Too