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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 1 1 Browse Search
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource] 1 1 Browse Search
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 15: resignation from the army.-marriage to Miss Taylor.-Cuban visit.-winter in Washington.-President van Buren.-return to Brierfield, 1837. (search)
to St. Louis to be married to Lieutenant Davis. In reference to this reported elopement Mr. Davis wrote: In 1835 I resigned from the army, and Miss Taylor being then in Kentucky with her aunt — the oldest sister of General Taylor--I went thither and we were married in the house of her aunt, in the presence of General Taylor's two sisters, of his oldest brother, his son-in-law, and many others of the Taylor family. This house is still standing, and was afterward the residence of Colonel William Christy. The estrangement between Lieutenant Davis and Colonel Taylor was not healed during the life of Mrs. Davis. Mr. Davis had seen so much of the discomforts of army life to the families of the officers that, when he decided to marry, he also determined to resign his commission in the army. His resignation was dated June 30, 1835. After his marriage, Mr. Davis proceeded at once with his bride to visit his family in Mississippi. The first place at which they stopped was Th
The Daily Dispatch: October 22, 1861., [Electronic resource], Ineligibility of officers of the army for Congress. (search)
ry and duplicity practiced upon the people of the State through the medium of a Legislature which does not reflect their sentiments, and declared his belief that the time would come when despotism would be crushed and its instruments driven out at the cannon's mouth, and at the point of the bayonet. He stated that there were now 8,500 Kentuckians in the Southern army, and thousands more waiting a favorable opportunity to strike a blow for constitutional freedom.--Mr. Marshall was followed by Colonel Wm. Christy, a veteran of the war of 1812, who made a thrilling speech. Col. Thomas L. of Gen. Sterling Price's staff, also made a new remarks, giving a cheering view of the progress of events in Missouri, and Col. Wm. F. Sims, of Kentucky, the competitor of John J. Crittenden, briefly addressed the throng. It was announced that Mr. Breckinridge was not present, and though this caused a general expression of disappointment, the enthusiasm of the people was not perceptibly diminished.