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The story of eating black eyed peas on New Year's Day
The story of *THE BLACK EYED PEA^ being considered good luck relates
directly back to Sherman 's Bloody March to the Sea in late 1864. It was
called The Savannah Campaign and was lead by Major General William T.
Sherman. The Civil War campaign began on 11/15/64 when Sherman's troops
marched from the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, and ended at the
port of Savannah on12/22/1864. When the smoke cleared, the southerners
who had survived the on slaught came out of hiding. They found that the
blue belly aggressors that had looted and stolen everything of value and
everything you could eat including all livestock, death and destruction
were everywhere. While in hiding, few had enough to eat, and starvation
was now upon the survivors. There was no international aid, no Red Cross
meal trucks. The Northern army had taken everything they could carry and
eaten everything they could eat. But they couldn't take it all. The
devastated people of the south found for some unknown reason that
Sherman's blood thirsty troops had left silos full of blackeyed peas. At
the time in the north, the lowly black eyed pea was only used to feed
stock. The northern troops saw it as the thing of least value. Taking
grain for their horses and livestock and other crops to feed themselves,
they just couldn't take everything. So they left the black eyed peas in
great quantities assuming it would be of no use to the survivors, since
all the livestock it could feed had either been taken or eaten.
Southerners awoke to face a new year in this devastation and were facing
massive starvation if not for the good luck of having the black eyed
peas to eat. From New Years Day 1866 forward, the tradition grew to eat
black eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck."
The story of *THE BLACK EYED PEA^ being considered good luck relates
directly back to Sherman 's Bloody March to the Sea in late 1864. It was
called The Savannah Campaign and was lead by Major General William T.
Sherman. The Civil War campaign began on 11/15/64 when Sherman's troops
marched from the captured city of Atlanta, Georgia, and ended at the
port of Savannah on12/22/1864. When the smoke cleared, the southerners
who had survived the on slaught came out of hiding. They found that the
blue belly aggressors that had looted and stolen everything of value and
everything you could eat including all livestock, death and destruction
were everywhere. While in hiding, few had enough to eat, and starvation
was now upon the survivors. There was no international aid, no Red Cross
meal trucks. The Northern army had taken everything they could carry and
eaten everything they could eat. But they couldn't take it all. The
devastated people of the south found for some unknown reason that
Sherman's blood thirsty troops had left silos full of blackeyed peas. At
the time in the north, the lowly black eyed pea was only used to feed
stock. The northern troops saw it as the thing of least value. Taking
grain for their horses and livestock and other crops to feed themselves,
they just couldn't take everything. So they left the black eyed peas in
great quantities assuming it would be of no use to the survivors, since
all the livestock it could feed had either been taken or eaten.
Southerners awoke to face a new year in this devastation and were facing
massive starvation if not for the good luck of having the black eyed
peas to eat. From New Years Day 1866 forward, the tradition grew to eat
black eyed peas on New Year's Day for good luck."
which is much much the case if I don't drink
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