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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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the victory; and in humble dependence upon His Almighty strength, and trusting in the justness of our cause, we appeal to Him, that He may set at naught the efforts of our enemies, and put them to confusion and shame: Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, in view of the impending conflict, do hereby set apart Friday, the 15th day of November, as a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer; and I do hereby invite the Reverend Clergy, and the people of thesef public worship, and to implore the blessing of Almighty God upon our arms, that He may give us victory over our enemies, preserve our homes and altars from pollution, and secure to us the restoration of peace and prosperity. Given under my hand and the seal of the Confederate States, at Richmond, this thirty-first day of October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-one. Jefferson Davis. By the President: R. M. T. Hunter, Secretary of State. no 1--eodt15N
st to deprecate the very freest discussion of the merits and conduct of the Southern Administration. A wanton abuse or error ought to be exposit and assailed in the most vigorous and unsparing manner. But, at least for the present, lemere fault-finders forego their pet luxury Otherwise, the world will say of us that we are a peevish, fickle, discontented race, who will never be satisfied in any Government under Heaven; that we have just cast off Lincoln, and are now as anxious to be rid of Davis; that those who dissolved the old Union a year ago are getting ready to dissolve the now, and will are long be precipitated into remediless chaos and ruin. This has always been the prediction of open enemies abroad and of secret traitor and tories at home, who are stealthily fanning every spark of discontent in the vain hope of insuring the fulfilment of their malignant prophecies. Let us never forget that we cannot expect perfection in any human Government. Let us be thankful for the goo
l contest. There being but one electoral ticket in the field, the vote of the city was cast for Davis and Stephens, who, from present appearances, may be regarded as the President and Vice-President Petersburg, Nov. 6 --The election passed off quietly to-day, and a small vote was polled, Davis and Stephens, for President and Vice President, received 627 votes. Col. Roger A. Pryor, for Co6. --At this precinct the Congressional vote resulted — Bocock 71, Goode 26. The vote for Davis and Stephens is unanimous. Seventh District. Lynchburg, Nov. 6. --The official vote in Lynchburg is as follows: For Davis and Stephens, 444. For Congress; Keane, 534; Holcombe, 157; and Leake, 13. There was very little interest manifested, and the vote was small. Amherst C. --On account of the stormy weather the vote was small. At Cannon's Store precinct it was unanimous for Davis and Stephens. For Congress — Smith 98, Scott 26. Regimental vote not heard from