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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	74	2	Browse	Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 4.	44	0	Browse	Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones)	30	0	Browse	Search
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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), chapter 1.1 (search)

ve bishops to the Protestant Episcopal church (Davis, Green, C. S. Hawks, Otey, Polk); besides a nuur men were nominated for the senatorships: George Davis, W. W. Avery, Bedford Brown and Henry W. Mi, and George Howard, Jr., were University men. Davis and Avery were chosen. For the eight seats inf Justice. Thomas Bragg was the second and George Davis the fourth Attorney General. Other alumn6th N. C Pettigrew'sHeth's86502120708 42d MissDavis'Heth's60205265 2d MissDavis'Heth's49183232 1Davis'Heth's49183232 11th N. CPettigrew'sHeth's50159209 45th N. CDaniel'sRodes'46173219 17th MissBarksdale'sMcLaws'401606252 11th MissDavis'Heth's32170202 55th N. CDavis'Heth's39159198 11th Ga G. T. Anderson'sHood'sThe trustees then determined to appeal to President Davis in behalf of the institution and its students. Mr. Davis had said at the beginning of the war, that the seed corn must not be ground up. A. Swain addressed the following letter to President Davis: University of North Carolina, Chapel[3 more...]

Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 24. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The laying of the corner-stone of the monument to President Jefferson Davis, (search)

m of strong Christian faith. Permit me to quote the words of two distinguished men who knew Jefferson Davis most intimately in official as well as private life: Standing here by his open grave, and in all probability not far from my own, said George Davis, of North Carolina, Attorney-General of the Confederacy, I declare to you that he was the most honest, truest, gentlest, tenderest, manliest man I ever knew. I knew Jefferson Davis as I knew few men, said Benjamin Hill, Georgia's great senatDavis as I knew few men, said Benjamin Hill, Georgia's great senator. I have been near him in his public duties; I have seen him by his private fireside; I have witnessed his humble devotions, and I challenge the judgment of history when I say no people were ever led through the fiery struggle for liberty by a nobler, truer patriot, while the carnage of war and the trials of public life never revealed a purer or more beautiful Christian character. Jefferson Davis stood the test of true greatness, he was the greatest to those who knew him best. One of the

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