CAUDLE LECTURE. (Recently delivered at Richmond, Va., and to be repeated at Danville, N. C.) MRS. JEFF DAVIS CAUDLE (loq.) "No, MR. D—, I'll not 'go to sleep, like a good soul!' Where's the Trip to Washington promised me? And where's the NICE WHITE HOUSE I was to have?"
This cartoon was published in the May 31, 1862 issue of Harper’s Weekly, which you can read at Son of the South. I think the cartoonist might be lampooning Confederate politicians for thinking about fleeing Virginia as the Union armies approached Richmond in the spring of 1862.
Eventually Mr. and Mrs. Davis made it back to Beauvoir, their home in Biloxi, Mississippi:
Life goes on at Beauvoir c.1885
Sons of Confederate Veterans publish a site about Beauvoir.
