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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 Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Hessians. (search)
amation of the President is published for the information of all concerned: proclamation. "By virtue of the power vested in me by law to declare the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in threatened with invasion, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do proclaim that Martial law is hereby extended, over the city of Richmond, and the adjoining and surrounding country to the distance of ten miles, and I do proclaim the suspension of all civi city, and surrounding country to the distance aforesaid. In faith whereof, I have hereunto signed my name and set my seal at the city of Richmond, on this first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. [Signed,] Jefferson Davis" II. Brigadier General J. H. Winder, Commanding Department of Henrico, "is charged with the due execution of the foregoing proclamation." He will forthwith establish an efficient military police, and will enforce the following orders: Al
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], To the Non-Combatants. (search)
A proclamation. Whereas, the Congress of the Confederate States has by law vested in the President the power to suspend the writ of habeas corpus in cities in danger of attack by the enemy: Now, therefore. I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do hereby proclaim that martial law is extended over the cities of Norfolk and Ports month and the surrounding country to the distance of ten miles from said cities, and all civil jurisdiction and the privilege of surrounding country to the distance of ten miles from said cities, and all civil jurisdiction and the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus are hereby declared to be suspended within the limits aforesaid. This proclamation will remain in force until otherwise ordered. In faith whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal, at the City of Richmond, on this twenty seventh day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two [Signed.] Jefferson Davis
The Daily Dispatch: March 8, 1862., [Electronic resource], Convulsions in America. (search)
he North, when, as they have shown, they can do much better for themselves. They have chosen as President a man of judgment and conduct, who can give to their impulses unity of action, and can both excite and control their enthusiasm. If the messages of the rival Presidents may be considered as indicative of the policy of those who chose the chiefs, or of the causes which they respectively advocate, the South are amply justified for regarding with "the contemptuous astonishment" which Jefferson Davis's language attributes to them, the proceedings of the North. Resolution and devotion have been shown not merely by the Southern troops, but by the entire population. They appear to bear their privations with uncommon cheerfulness and courage. They make no querulous appeals for sympathy, nor complaints of neglect. They speak of their successes with modesty, prepare for new distresses with fortitude, and express none of the vindictiveness so prominent in the measures of their enemies.