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September 23rd (search for this): chapter 67
remonitory symptoms of a return of the erysipelas to his face. Reported his condition to Major-General Miles, respectfully asking permission to call in Colonel Pineo, Medical Inspector of the Department for consultation. Mentioned that General Terry, my old commander, had kindly placed the carriage of Mr. Davis at my disposal during the visit. Mr. Davis laughed about his carriage, and said that since some Yankee had to ride in it, he would prefer my doing so to another. September 23d. Prisoner renewed his questions about the proposed change in his place of confinement, begging me, if I knew anything, even the worst — that he was to be kept as now until death put an end to his sufferings — not to conceal it from him anylonger; that suspense was more injurious to him than could be the most painful certainty. Assured him that I had no further information. A place had been selected for his incarceration in Carroll Hall, the requisite changes in the rooms made, and I
vised by someone who had intimate knowledge of my habits, my custom having been through life never to sleep except in total darkness. July 15th. Called on Mr. Davis accompanied by Captain Grill, Third Pennsylvania Artillery, officer of the day. Found him extremely weak, growing more alarmed about his sight, which was failing rapidly. The phenomenon had occurred to him of seeing all objects double, due chiefly to his nervous debility and the over-taxation of constant reading. July 30th. Found Mr. Davis in a very critical state; his nervous debility extreme, his mind more despondent than ever heretofore, his appetite gone, complexion livid, and pulse denoting deep prostration of all physical energies. Was much alarmed, and realized with painful anxiety the responsibilities of my position. If he were to die in prison, and without trial, subject to such severities as had been inflicted on his attenuated frame, the world would form unjust conclusions, but conclusions with
September 22nd (search for this): chapter 67
ch the face of a sentinel was continually framed by night and day, ready to report to his officer the first sign of any attempt on the prisoner's part to shuffle off this mortal coil by any act of self-violence. It was of this face, with its unblinking eyes, that Mr. Davis so bitterly complained in after-days; but this is anticipating. The prisoner, as was said of Lafayette, is perhaps not sick enough yet, and has to suffer some further weeks of exposure in his present casemate. September 22d. Called on Mr. Davis for the first time since returning from Richmond, accompanied by Captain Titlow, Third Pennsylvania Artillery, officer of the day. Found he had been inquiring for me several days, in consequence of suffering premonitory symptoms of a return of the erysipelas to his face. Reported his condition to Major-General Miles, respectfully asking permission to call in Colonel Pineo, Medical Inspector of the Department for consultation. Mentioned that General Terry, my ol
November 18th, 1865 AD (search for this): chapter 67
, merely containing a few articles of apparel chiefly designed for the warm climate of the South. General Miles, however, took a different view of my action, to judge from the following letter: Headquarters military District, Fort Monroe, November 18, 1865. Colonel: The Major-General commanding directs that, in future, you give no orders for Jefferson Davis without first communicating with these head districts. Also, that in future, your conversations with him will be confined strictly converse is a valuable relief from the moodiness of silent reflection. Captain A. O. Hitchcock, A. D. C. Captain: I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your communication dated Headquarters Military District, Fort Monroe, Va., November 18, 1865; and in answer to your inquiry concerning the cost of the coat ordered by me for Mr. Davis, I would say: That I do not know the cost of the coat; I have not yet received the bill. As soon as received, I will forward it to the Major-Gen
such as my wife placed in her own trunks when she left Richmond, so that her trunks have probably been opened; and I suppose, he added with another grim smile, that the other clothes to which General Miles referred, are now on exhibition or preserved as relics. My only hope is that in taking my wardrobe they did not also confiscate that of my wife and children; but I realize that we are like him of old who fell among a certain class of people and was succored by the good Samaritan. May 28th. Complained of the dampness of his cell, as one probable cause of his illness. The sun could never dart its influence through such masses of masonry. Surrounded as the fort was with a ditch, in which the water rose and fell from three to four feet with the tide, it was impossible to keep such places free from noxious vapors. Recurring to the subject of his family, Mr. Davis asked me had I not been called upon to attend Miss Howell, his wife's sister, who had been very ill at the tim
tablished on some firmer basis. Exercise he absolutely needed, and also some alleviation of his abnormal nervous excitement. No drugs could aid a digestion naturally weak and so impaired, without exercise; nor could anything in the pharmacopoeia quiet nerves so overwrought and shattered, while the continual friction of the fetters was counterpoising whatever medicines could be given. You believe it, then, a medical necessity? queried General Miles. I do, most earnestly. May 27th. Mr. Davis said: My physical condition rendered it obvious that there could be no idea that fetters were needful to the security of my imprisonment. It was clear, therefore, that the object was to offer an indignity both to myself and the cause I represented — not the less sacred to me because covered with the pall of a military disaster. It was for this reason I resisted as a duty to my faith, to my countrymen, and to myself. It was for this reason I courted death from the muskets of
ng his pipe) he hoped to become tranquil. During this period Mr. Stanton is said to have gone down and peered through the grating at the tortured man, and that General Miles favored his friends with peeps at him when they were at all curious. May 25th. I have a poor, frail body, he said, and though in my youth and manhood, while soldiering, I have done some rough camping and campaigning, there was flesh then to cover my nerves and bones; and that makes an important difference. May 26th. Happening to notice that his coffee stood cold and apparently untasted beside his bed in its tin cup, I remarked that here was a contradiction of the assertion implied in the old army question, Who ever saw cold coffee in a tin cup? referring to the eagerness with which soldiers of all classes, when campaigning, seek for and use this beverage. This coffee was brought in the same cup, unwashed, in which his soup had been served the day before, and whatever he tasted cooked brought on
pon you is the eye of a spy, or enemy, gloating in the pain and humiliation which itself creates. I have lived too long in the woods to be frightened by an owl, and have seen death too often to dread any form of pain. But I confess this torture of being watched begins to prey on my reason. The lamp burning in my room all night would seem a torment devised by someone who had intimate knowledge of my habits, my custom having been through life never to sleep except in total darkness. July 15th. Called on Mr. Davis accompanied by Captain Grill, Third Pennsylvania Artillery, officer of the day. Found him extremely weak, growing more alarmed about his sight, which was failing rapidly. The phenomenon had occurred to him of seeing all objects double, due chiefly to his nervous debility and the over-taxation of constant reading. July 30th. Found Mr. Davis in a very critical state; his nervous debility extreme, his mind more despondent than ever heretofore, his appetite gone,
September 1st (search for this): chapter 67
cide, he said, was designed to represent him to the world as an atrocious criminal, so harrowed by remorse that the oblivion of death would be welcome. His early shackles had partly the same object, but still more to degrade his cause. September 1st. Was called at daylight by Captain Titlow, officer of the day, to see State prisoner Davis, who appeared rapidly sinking, and was believed to be in a critical condition. The carbuncle on his thigh was much inflamed, his pulse indicating extneral, very respectfully, Your obedient servant, John J. Craven. The routine report merely ran: I have the honor to report prisoner Davis's condition not perceivably different from that of yesterday: very feeble; no appetite. September 1st, Mr. Davis said: The women of the South had sent forth their sons, directing them to return with wounds disabling them for further service, or never to return at all. All they had flung into the contest-beauty, grace, passion, ornament; the e
ice showed by a receipt were delivered at the fort. Mr. Davis never received one, nor could I recover them afterward.: the New York Herald (only occasional numbers), and of books, histories-Mr. Bancroft appearing his favorite American author. I recommended him to be very moderate at first in his open-air exercise, gauging the amount of exercise to his strength; and from time to time forward, Mr. Davis went out every day for an hour's exercise, the weather and his health permitting. July 11th. Found prisoner very desponding, the failure of his sight troubling him and his nights almost without sleep. His present treatment was killing him by inches, and he wished shorter work could be made of his torment. He had hoped long since for a trial which should be public, and therefore with some semblance of fairness; but hope deferred was making his heart sick. Mr. Davis complained this sleeplessness was aggravated by the lamp kept burning in his room all night, so that he could
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