Tag: spies of the Civil War

• The Fabulous Life of Champagne Charlie

  Some people live large and don’t ask for permission. Charles Heidsieck. There’s your example. Champagne Charlie, as his adoring American public dubbed him, had drama in his veins like some of us have fear and loathing. His father rode before Napoleon into Russia on a white stallion to take orders for celebratory champagne (someone was…

  Adrienne Morris

  September 3, 2014

  Intoxication, Men, Uncategorized, United States History

  19th century, champagne, Champagne Charlie, Civil War, Denver, Drinking, France, Gilded Age, Heidsieck, spies of the Civil War