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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Ceremonies connected with the unveiling of the statue of General Robert E. Lee, at Lee circle, New Orleans, Louisiana, February 22, 1884. (search)
stored Union. For a like act there yet rests the stigma of disfranchisement upon a single man out of millions, the chivalric chieftain of the lost cause. [To Mr. Davis. Venerable man! while the smirking littlenesses of official life deny you the bauble of an unsought amnesty, that providence which, in the end, surely guides ae who desire to go deeper may consult those great storehouses of facts and principles, the works of Calhoun, Bledsoe, Stephens, Sage, and our immortal leader, Jefferson Davis. It is not for me dogmatically to proclaim that we were right and that the supporters of the Union were wrong. I shall have accomplished a duty, and shallby the multitude eager to do honor to the memory of Lee. Amongst the many distinguished persons in attendance were the President of the Confederate States, Jefferson Davis, his daughters, and Misses Mary and Mildred Lee, daughters of the great soldier and patriot, in whose honor the monument was erected. The associations of the
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), First Maryland campaign. (search)
rejoin his chief. By a severe night-march he reached the Potomac at Shepherdstown, and on the morning of the 16th crossed the river and rejoined Lee. Walker followed him closely, and reached the battlefield at about the same time. McLaws rested for some time near Harper's Ferry, and then moved towards Sharpsburg, which he did not reach until about 9 o'clock on the 17th. Of the soldiers of the Federal garrison cooped up in Harper's Ferry none escaped except about 1,300 cavalry under Colonel Davis. They silently made their way up the north bank of the Potomac at the foot of Maryland Heights during the night of the 14th. Next morning in their retreat they ran foul of some of Longstreet's trains near Sharpsburg and did some damage. The road by which these soldiers escaped was on General McLaws's line. Stuart had suggested to McLaws the propriety of guarding it, and Jackson had cautioned him against the danger of the garrison's attempting to escape into Maryland, but McLaws, no
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Died for their State. (search)
country, North and South. It treats of Mr. Jefferson Davis and his connection with the Southern Codemonstrations in the South in honor of Mr. Jefferson Davis, the ex-President of the Confederate St furnish matter for profound consideration. Mr. Davis, twenty-one years after the fall of the Conf is significant, startling. It is given, as Mr. Davis himself has recognized, not to him alone, bud in the cause to evoke this homage. As for Mr. Davis himself, the student of American history haslson. The clear-headed, practical, dominating Davis, said Mr. Wilson in a speech made during the wimmeasurably superior numbers and means, and Mr. Davis was a prisoner, subjected to the grossest in wonder when we consider the cause for which Mr. Davis is so much to his people. Let Mr. Davis himMr. Davis himself state it, for no one else can do it so well. In his recent address at the laying of the corn, the cause of constitutional liberty. And Mr. Davis's Southern tour is nothing less than a verti[3 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Address before the Virginia division of Army of Northern Virginia, at their reunion on the evening of October 21, 1886. (search)
ly glad to greet here the distinguished soldier who is now Governor of Virginia, and the child of the Confederacy—the daughter of our ever-honored chief, President Jefferson Davis. These sentiments were greeted with enthusiastic applause. General Early then arose, and amid loud applause moved that Miss Winnie Davis, the daughouble her numbers in the field. Had we been able to arm the volunteers who offered their services in 1861 the result of the war might have been very different. Mr. Davis has been blamed for not having raised at once an army of 500,000, which he could just as easily have mustered as 10,000. But an army without arms is little bettGeneral Banks was our chief quartermaster in the early part of 1862, and Pope and Hooker our ordnance officers. But with no other except this adventitious aid, Mr. Davis was able to report to Congress in his message in January, 1863: Our armies are larger, better disciplined, and more thoroughly armed and equipped than at any
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Another account. (search)
have seen letters that few others have seen, and have heard conversations that cannot be repeated, and I tell you that Jeff. Davis never was a secessionist. He was a conspirator. He did not care for separation from the United States. His object w succeeded he would to-day be the master spirit of the continent and you would be slaves. I have seen a letter from Jefferson Davis to a man whose name I cannot mention, because he is a United States Senator. I know Davis's writing and saw his sigDavis's writing and saw his signature, and in that letter he said he would turn Lee's army against any State that might attempt to secede from the Southern Confederacy. This public assault, under the covert plea that it is based upon evidence which regard for a United Statesived for so gross a libel? If General Sherman has access to any letters purporting to have been written by me which will sustain his accusations, let him produce them or wear the brand of a base slanderer. Yours, respectfully, Jefferson Davis.
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), President Davis in reply to General Sherman. (search)
President Davis in reply to General Sherman. [In our last issue, we noticed a slander which Ge but deserved excoriation.] The letter of Mr. Davis. Beauvoir, Mississippi, September 23,ter to which he referred had passed between Jeff. Davis and a man whose name it would not do to menost dire. Letters which had passed between Jeff. Davis and a man whose name it would not do to menel the people to do as he would have them. Jeff. Davis would have turned his hand against any Stathat cannot be repeated, and I tell you that Jeff. Davis never was a secessionist. He was a conspira base slanderer. Yours, respectfully, Jefferson Davis. The publication of the above letter I do not propose to get into a fight with Jeff. Davis. * * When a man makes a newspaper statementWar Department that the particular letter of Mr. Davis was found by him in Raleigh. Senator Vancay who loved Jefferson Davis, and to whom Jefferson Davis was endeared by the memory of common hard[17 more...]
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 21 (search)
the chairman of the committee from Georgia, he was largely instrumental in framing the Constitution of the Confederate States. Upon the inauguration of the Hon. Jefferson Davis as President of the Southern Confederacy, the port-folio of State was tendered to, and, after some hesitation on his part, was accepted by Mr. Toombs. Hmmendation of General Lee. On the 4th of March, 1863, he resigned his commission in the army and returned to Georgia. General Toombs was not in accord with President Davis's administration of public affairs, nor did he acquiesce in the propriety of some of the most important enactments of the Confederate Congress. Although his be cast. He was an avowed enemy of West Point, and ridiculed the idea, so generally entertained, of the superiority of the officers of the regular army. Of President Davis's ability to fill the exalted station to which he had been elected, General Toombs did not cherish a favorable opinion. The conscript act—the suspension of t
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Letter from President Davis on States' rights. (search)
Letter from President Davis on States' rights. The Jackson (Miss.) Clarion prints the following letter: Beauvoir, Mississippi, June 20, 1885. Colonel J. L. Power, Clarian Office. Dear Sir,—Among the less-informed persons at the North there exists an opinion that the negro slave at the South was a mere chattel, having neither rights nor immunities protected by law or public opinion. Southern men knew such was not the case, and others desiring to know could readily learn the fact. lutionary sires, and sacred in the principles they established, let not the children of the United States be taught that our Federal Government is sovereign; that our sires, after having, by a long and bloody war, won community-independence, used the power, not for the end sought, but to transfer their allegiance, and by oath or otherwise bind their posterity to be the subjects of another government, from which they could only free themselves by force of arms. Respectfully, Jefferson Davis
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Correspondence between Governor Vance, of North Carolina, and President Jefferson Davis. (search)
Correspondence between Governor Vance, of North Carolina, and President Jefferson Davis. [General Sherman's friends, in their vain efforts to extricate him from the web of mendacity, which he has woven for himself in his controversy with Mr. Davis, have been the occasion of the publication of a number of the letters of the great Confederate chief. But they all tend to brand Sherman's slander and make clearer President Davis's position. The following are worth preserving:] State of North Carolina, Executive Department, Raleigh, N. C., December 30, 1863. His Excellency, President DPresident Davis: My dear Sir,—After a careful consideration of all the sources of discontent in North Carolina, I have concluded that it will be perhaps impossible to remove it, except by making some effort pient, as I believe it now to be, or more mature, as I believe, if not firmly met, it will in our future inevitably become. I have the honor to be, very respectfully, (Signed) Jefferson Davis
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 14. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The Maryland Confederate monument at Gettysburg. (search)
eld responsible as such. The same views were afterwards pressed upon the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States in the proceedings against ex-President Davis by Charles O'Conor, and Mr. Davis was never tried. Nor was any man ever tried anywhere in any Federal Court for treason. The law of the United States, aMr. Davis was never tried. Nor was any man ever tried anywhere in any Federal Court for treason. The law of the United States, as declared by the executive and judicial departments for eighty years, had settled the fact that resistance by any great body of people, controlling a large territory for a considerable time against the government which they were endeavoring to throw off, was war and not rebellion, and must be treated as war, with all the legal connot think the time auspicious for such an organization, and it was dropped. At the great memorial meeting in Richmond, in October, 1870, presided over by ex-President Davis, when many great soldiers of the Confederacy were present, the Association was formed. This society was then organized as the Maryland Division of the Army
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