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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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a, and in the welcome which London gave Benjamin (of Davis's cabinet) when he came there to live after the war,o be a great nation. No more than Grant does Jefferson Davis seem to have looked for a grave struggle. He a that one Southerner was equal to five Yankees. And Davis made a speech in which he announced that he was readmistakes than the army. The names of Foote, Porter, Davis, and Farragut (let Ellett's be added too) must be sphting Americans, not Spaniards, then. Happily, Jefferson Davis made some blunders, too; and thus Grant had onlr was nowhere, and starvation was approaching. Jefferson Davis visited Bragg during this time, and, looking doime and at all times. Under the inspiration of Jefferson Davis, in the spring a manifesto issued from the Conflood. They wanted peace. They began to see in Jefferson Davis and his associates, not a group of patriots, bu Lee had to break cover, and retreat from Richmond. Davis fled southward; and, even while flying, and with ful