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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 2 0 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 77: the Wreck of the Pacific.—the Mississippi Valley Society. (search)
e hope of commanding a fine steamer then on the stocks, The North Pacific coast is at best a dangerous one, and in the last letter written before his death he said: This coast is dangerous, and I am never thoroughly asleep until I reach Seattle and leaving there, keep the same watch to San Francisco again. I have not felt robust this year, and in fact have not felt the spring of youth since my imprisonment. After she had cleared the harbor of Seattle, Thursday, November 4, I875, Captain Howell went to sleep, but in a few minutes afterward a sailing-vessel came too near the Pacific, and seeing the danger, tacked first one way and then another, and ran into the Paczic, wrecked her, and was herself wrecked on the rocks further on. The Paci/ic had three hundred souls on board, many of them miners and rough men, ladies, children, and helpless people. The captain kept order, placed all his passengers and crew on boats and rafts, coming on deck stripped to his under-clothes for swim