Chatham Artillery Punch

Preparation info
  • Makes about

    1 gallon

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Glory of Southern Cooking

By James Villas

Published 2007

  • About

Regimental punches have been concocted in the South for ceremonial events ever since The War Between the States, and none is more famous (or infamous) than Savannah’s superpotent Chatham Artillery Punch, which locals make a week in advance of any big social shindig. According to the city’s resident epicure and a good friend, Damon Lee Fowler, the original punch base was devised just before the Civil War to honor a military group called the Republican Blues and was probably