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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 43: visit to New Orleans and admission to Fortress Monroe. (search)
avis has always since felt the most sincere gratitude and affection. Want of space has forced me unwillingly, in his case as in that of many others, to condense their statements, but I quote them as they are, only changing a few words. In May, 1866, an indictment was procured against the ex-chieftain, in the United States District Court of Virginia, held in Richmond. On June I Ith, of the same year, on motion of Mr. Boutwell, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 105 yeas to 19 naysilt signed the bond through Mr. Horace F. Clark, his son-in-law, and Mr. Augustus Schell, his friend. Mr. Greeley's enormous sacrifice to compel justice to be done to one man, and he an enemy, should be written. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, in May, 1866, related to me how the Chief of this Military Bureau showed him the evidence upon which the proclamation was issued charging Messrs. Davis and Clay with complicity in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. He said he refused to give the thing sup