claret-sanger

Updated: June 28, 2025

Lemonade and a mild drink called claret-sanger was served to the boys, but the real claret was served to the major, as to the other elders, and the mellowness of Christmas pervaded his spirit. He drank a toast to Madame Delaunay, and the others drank it with him, standing.

Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander) Altsheler - The Guns of Bull Run : A Story of the Civil War's Eve