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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2. Search the whole document.
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United States (United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Ringgold, Ga. (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Georgia (Georgia, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Tennessee (Tennessee, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
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Chapter 3: Mr. Davis continues his narrative.
While on my way to Montgomery, and waiting in Jackson, Miss., for the railroad train, I met the Honorable William L. Sharkey, who had filled with great distinction the office of Chief-Justice of the State.
He said he was looking for me to make an inquiry.
He desired to know if it was true, as he had just learned, that I believed that there would be war. My opinion was freely given, that there would be war, long and bloody, and that it behooved everyone to put his house in order.
He expressed much surprise, and said that he had not believed the report attributing this opinion to me. He asked how I supposed war could result from the peaceable withdrawal of a sovereign State.
The answer was, that it was not my opinion that war should be occasioned by the exercise of that right, but that it would be.
Judge Sharkey and I had not belonged to the same political party, he being a Whig, but we fully agreed with regard to the questio
America (Alabama, United States) (search for this): chapter 3
Thomas C. Howard (search for this): chapter 3