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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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, under the "Confederate" seal. This paper, from the Confederate Secretary of State, the witness said he received from the Secretary of State on the 4th instant, and he affixed his signature to it in his presence. The witness also stated that Mr. Davis expressed surprise at the result of the Burley case. The Yankee cotton fleet. The United States steamers Flag and Wayanda, which sailed from Port Royal on the 8th instant as part convoy to twenty-four vessels, laden with General Shermaly. The Yankees alleged that he has gone to join Maximilian's army. Thomas H. Siddons, a printer, from Richmond, Virginia, who had been in the Confederate army and captured, but taken the oath, was arrested in Baltimore for hurrahing for Jeff. Davis. The Yankee Senate has confirmed the nomination of old Abe's son, Bob, as captain on Grant's staff, and he goes "to the front" in a few days. A staff officer of the Ninth corps writes that, as the Confederate Peace Commissioners were
difficult to account for his agency in transactions to abhorrent to the moral sense, and so it consistent with all the rules of honorable warfare. The accused, in justification of the transaction on Lake Erie, produced the manifesto of Jefferson Davis assuming the responsibility of the act, and declaring that it was done by his authority It is hardly necessary to say that no subsumption can sanction an act not warranted by the laws of civilized warfare. If Mr. Davis were at the head of aMr. Davis were at the head of an independent government, recognized as such by other nations, he would have no power to sanction what the usages of civilized States has condemned. The Government of the United States, from a desire to mitigate the asperities of war, has given to the insurgents of the South the benefit of the rules which govern sovereign States in the conduct of hostilities with each other; and any violation of those rules should, for the sake of good order her and the cause of humanity throughout the world,