The Classics

Never has a recipe, especially for a beverage, been so eloquent. Consider this letter from then–Lieutenant General (later General) Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., the son of General Simon Bolivar Buckner of the Confederate Army, who lost Fort Donelson to General Ulysses S. Grant. Here, in a letter dated March 30, 1937, Buckner writes to Major General William D. Connor, superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.