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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, April, 1863. (search)
d beer in the open. He is brother to the General Bee who was killed at Manasas. We talked politics and fraternized very amicably for more than an hour. He said the Mongomery affair was against his sanction and he was sorry for it. He said that Davis, another renegade, would also have been put to death, had it not been for the intercession of his wife. General Bee had restored Davis to the Mexicans. Half an hour after parting company with General Bee, we came to the spot where Mongomery Davis to the Mexicans. Half an hour after parting company with General Bee, we came to the spot where Mongomery had been left; and sure enough, about two hundred yards to the left of the road, we found him. He had been slightly buried, but his head and arms were above the ground, his arms tied together, the rope still round his neck, but part of it still dangling from quite a small mosquite-tree. Dogs or wolves had probably scraped the earth from the body, and there was no flesh on the bones. I obtained this my first experience of Lynch law within three hours of landing in America. I understand
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, May, 1863. (search)
e we lost our way, and got aground several times; but at length, after great exertions, we forced ourselves through it, and reached Lake Concordia, a fine piece of water, several miles in extent, and we were landed at dusk on the plantation of a Mr. Davis. These bayous and swamps abound with alligators and snakes of the most venomous description. I saw many of the latter swimming about exposed to a heavy fire of six-shooters; but the alligators were frightened away by the leading boat. Tht there in a wretched plight. The weather was most disagreeable, either a burning sun or a downpour of rain. The distance we did in the skiff was about twentyeight miles, which took us eleven hours to perform. On landing we hired at Mr. Davis's a small cart for Mr. Douglas (the wounded Missourian) and our baggage, and we had to finish the day by a trudge of three miles through deep mud, until, at length, we reached a place called Vidalia, which is on the Louisianian bank of the Miss
Lt.-Colonel Arthur J. Fremantle, Three Months in the Southern States, June, 1863. (search)
ement of this war, with his usual perspicacity, President Davis selected Colonel Rains as the most competent pe Fort Sumter. Our party consisted of an invalid General Davis, a Congressman named Nutt, Captain Feilden, the re Gen. Jordan, Chief of the Staff to Beauregard; Gen. Davis, Mr. Nutt, and Col. Rhett, of Fort Sumter. Thelatoo — the first I had tasted in the Confederacy. Mrs. Davis was unfortunately unwell and unable to see me. Mr. Jefferson Davis struck me as looking older than I expected. He is only fifty-six, but his face is emaciautrality laws had pressed hard upon the South; and Mr. Davis asserted that the pressure might have been equalizon. While walking home, Mr. Benjamin told me that Mr. Davis's military instincts still predominate, and that hy travels, many people have remarked to me that Jefferson Davis seems in a peculiar manner adapted for his offi his opinion with regard to appointing an officer, Mr. Davis is always most determined to carry out his intenti