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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 85: the end of a noble life, and a nation's sorrow over its loss. (search)
nd tender physicians; and how patiently he suffered acute pain, how thankfully he received every attention offered, and how bravely he tried to live through the long weeks of physical anguish, and how, when greatly discouraged, he gently said: I have much to do, but if it is God's will, I must submit. My strength was miscalculated, and this meagre account must suffice. Buoyed up by his wonderful constitution, which had never been impaired by excesses, he rallied several times, and on December 6th was considered convalescent. Waking from sleep at daylight on that morning, he said'to me: I want to tell you I am not afraid to die. I begged him not to speak of so dreadful a contingency, and he smiled and dropped asleep. In the afternoon he awoke from a sound, quiet sleep, with a congestive chill. A moment before he lost consciousness he gently declined the medicine that, urged by hope, I pressed upon him, in these courteous words which were his last: Pray excuse me, I cannot t