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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 35 : Mr. Davis Second report. (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 38 : Secretary of War , 1853 57
Chapter 38: Secretary of War, 1853-57.
While in the Senate, Mr. Davis wrote,
I had advocated the construction of a railway to connect the valley of the Mississippi with the Pacific coast; and, when an appropriation was made to determine the most eligible route for that purpose, the Secretary of War was charged with its application.
We had then but little of that minute and accurate knowledge of the interior of the continent which was requisite for the determination of the problem; sev
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 39 : Cabinet life. (search)
Chapter 39: Cabinet life.
In the summer of 1853 I left New Orleans, under the care of Major T. P. Andrews of the army, to join Mr. Davis in Washington, with my baby, my little sister, Margaret Graham, and brother, Becket Kempe Howell; the two latter were going to school.
We remained a day in Mobile, and the little ten-year old boy went to dinner alone.
He had never been at a hotel before.
The waiter laid down the wine card before him, of which the child ordered several bottles.
He drank a teaspoonful of it and then told me in confidence: I suppose the people of the hotel give it, and some of them drink it. I tried, but I could not.
He thought it was included in the ordinary charge for board.
We departed shortly after the yellow fever had appeared in the city.
General David Twiggs came to bid me goodby the day before I left, and told me that Colonel Bliss was quite ill with the disease; the day after I reached Washington, his death was announced.
He was a handsome man, of
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 40 : social relations and incidents of Cabinet life, 1853 57
Chapter 40: social relations and incidents of Cabinet life, 1853-57.
The wives of Mr. Pierce's Cabinet officers labored in their sphere as well as their husbands.
We each endeavored to extend hospitality to every member of Congress, of both Houses, at least once during the winter.
We did not bank the mantels with flowers as is done now, for very good reasons — it was not the fashion, and many of us, I, for one, could not bear the heavy odor in a crowded room.
We bought, out of our private purses, all the flowers we used, and we were none of us what would in this day be called rich.
If we had been so at the beginning of the official term, we should have become poorer every day, as well from inattention to our private affairs as to the utter inadequacy of the salary.
A few palms or azaleas growing in pots, and other ornamental plants grouped about the room, made them acceptable, and ignorance was bliss to us. If a measure was to be recommended by the Administration, the Chairm
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 44 : Charleston Convention , 1860