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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 26 : after the battle of Monterey . (search)
Chapter 26: after the battle of Monterey.
After the battle of Monterey my anxiety and depression were so great, and my health s6 much impaired by this and other causes, that my husband obtained sixty days leave of absence, which, in those days of slow travel, were required in order to spend two weeks in the United States.
In an entry in Adjutant Griffith's reports, dated Camp Allen, near Monterey, October 19th, I find this note: Colonel Davis left on furlough for sixty days.
He left the camp with a corporal's guard, went at great risk but without accident to Camargo, and rode Tartar down to take him home, for fear he might be shot in battle.
When at the Brazos it was necessary to transfer the horse from a lighter to the ship.
The sailors struck him, to force him to jump on the vessel.
He reared and snorted, but the blow only enraged him. He could not be induced to stir.
Colonel Davis told the sailors to let him alone, and, standing on the ship held the bridle, calling him