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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 67: the tortures inflicted by General Miles. (search)
pt his bible, and at last, when he had dropped asleep momentarily, a soldier felt in his nightgown to get a little medal I had persuaded him to wear about his neck, Errors, like all other men, he had committed; but stretched now on a bed from which he might never rise, and looking with the eyes of faith, which no walls could bar, up to the throne of Divine mercy, it was his comfort that no such crimes as men laid to his charge reproached him in the whispers of his conscience. August 24th. Visited Mr. Davis with Captain Titlow, officer of the day. Found him slightly better in mind and body. Observing me brush away with my foot some crumbs scattered near his bedside, Mr. Davis asked me to desist; they were for a mouse he was domesticating — the only living thing he had now power to benefit. Every conversation of this kind with Mr. Davis recalled the saying of some eminent writer, whose name has escaped me, that it is a noble thing to know how to take a country w