this is constance carey, who creates this starvation club of richmo. now, constance carey is only about 20 years old. in 1863 when the club forms. she is a refugee. she's from maryland and she's part of a trio of young socialites in richmond called the carey invincibles, three very attractive, young who would organize a lot of these extravaganzas. i should note that these parties were going on not just in richmond, but also in fredericksburg and in other cities in the south of richmond kind of becomes the best well known for events. so let's note the timing that these parties start to emerge late 63 of course what has just happened on the battlefields we've had disastrous defeats at vicksburg and of course at gettysburg during that summer. but we've also had of course the richmond bred riots, which is what pete noted april 2nd, 1863, a group of over 300 women, children, and even a few men take to the streets of richmond. they're armed with hatchets and. they're screaming bread or blood as they through the business district. and whilso of them may have