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Thomas Wentworth Higginson, Massachusetts in the Army and Navy during the war of 1861-1865, vol. 2 8 8 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
ermitted to use a wooden knife with which to manipulate his rude diet. When, on the 13th of September, 1865, Mrs. Davis asked General Miles by telegraph what was the condition of her husband, who had been very sick, the telegram was submitted to the War Department for action; that department replied, instructing the Major-General to send the following telegram, which it was thought, after a few days' consideration, might be sent without detriment to the public welfare: Fort Monroe, Sept. 14, 1865. Mrs. Varina Davis, Augusta, Ga.: Mr. Davis suffered temporarily from a carbuncle on the leg and from erysipelas in the face; that is now over, and he is as well as usual. N. A. Miles, Major-General Commanding. On reading this reply, framed in and transmitted from Washington, one is at a loss to understand the functions of a Major-General commanding, if discretion was not given him to inform an anxious wife five hundred miles away of the condition of her husband's health. (See
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The trials and trial of Jefferson Davis. (search)
ermitted to use a wooden knife with which to manipulate his rude diet. When, on the 13th of September, 1865, Mrs. Davis asked General Miles by telegraph what was the condition of her husband, who had been very sick, the telegram was submitted to the War Department for action; that department replied, instructing the Major-General to send the following telegram, which it was thought, after a few days' consideration, might be sent without detriment to the public welfare: Fort Monroe, Sept. 14, 1865. Mrs. Varina Davis, Augusta, Ga.: Mr. Davis suffered temporarily from a carbuncle on the leg and from erysipelas in the face; that is now over, and he is as well as usual. N. A. Miles, Major-General Commanding. On reading this reply, framed in and transmitted from Washington, one is at a loss to understand the functions of a Major-General commanding, if discretion was not given him to inform an anxious wife five hundred miles away of the condition of her husband's health. (See