Named Entity Results, Samuel Emory Davis

ossessing our first child, a son, born June 30, 1853, and called after Mr. Davis's father, Samuel Emory Davis, Mr. Pierce wrote, urging my husband to enter his Cabinet. My entreaties, added to Mr. DaMr. Davis's unwillingness to embark again in a political life, induced him to decline; but upon Mr. Pierce urging him to go, if only for the inauguration, he felt he could not refuse, but went on alone. H of his life better than another could. Happy in the peaceful pursuits of a planter, wrote Mr. Davis, in his later years, busily engaged in cares for servants, in the improvement of my land, en called outen her name-Rose, instead of Rosina. One of the overseers told me one day, in Mr. Davis's absence, that one of the men had drawn a large knife on him, and I had better stay in the hoe-taker for our negroes and of our interests, but every year marked a decrease in our income. Mr. Davis insisted on one point, and always carried it, viz., that the negroes should not be whipped, an

Chapter 34: first year in the Cabinet. Mr. Davis's first report as Secretary of War was trans troops rapidly across the desert. Under Mr. Davis's energetic direction the pending works of hf the United States to be made by contracts, Mr. Davis declared it essential that the army should bing that private enterprise can accomplish. Mr. Davis elaborately gave the reasons for his decisioas the policy been reversed to this day. Mr. Davis went further, and as heavy guns and cannon h East. This action, as well as every act of Mr. Davis's administration of the War Department, shownse of the North and West. No single act of Mr. Davis in office shows the faintest trace of any der Department, also during this first year of Mr. Davis's administration, the work for the extensiont, a few miles from Washington, built during Mr. Davis's term as Secretary of War, still remains a ary of the Interior, Caleb B. Smith, erased. Mr. Davis recommended the erection of a fire-proof bui

Chapter 35: Mr. Davis's Second report. Mr. Davis opened his second report as Secretary of War (presented to Congress December 4, 1854), with the gratifying announcement that the difference between the authorized and actual strength of the armyMr. Davis opened his second report as Secretary of War (presented to Congress December 4, 1854), with the gratifying announcement that the difference between the authorized and actual strength of the army was fast disappearing under the operation of the law (passed at his urgent recommendation in August) to increase the pay of the rank and file of the army and to encourage enlistments. The actual strength was I, 745, against an authorized strength truction. He declined to make the change asked for, but advised Mr. Gregoire to get me to ask the Secretary of War, Mr. Davis, to authorize the change in the survey. Before I left home Mr. Gregoire came to me, and submitted to me the plans and maps of the harbor improvement. I took them with me, and showed them to Secretary Davis, who at once consented to the change, and hence is the city of Dubuque indebted to that Secretary for the present superior ice harbor, the very best on the r

Chapter 36: Third year as Secretary of War. Mr. Davis's third report was presented to the House of Representatives December 3, 1855. The army consisted of 15,752 officers and men — only 2,115 less than the authorized strength — and enlistments were progressing so satisfactorily that the difference was rapidly being overcome. This was the result of the measures formerly recommended by Mr. Davis. Over 10,000 men had enlisted during the year, and over 20,000 had been refused on accountMr. Davis. Over 10,000 men had enlisted during the year, and over 20,000 had been refused on account of minority or unfitness. Four additional regiments had been recruited and organized. The removal of the Seminole Indians from Florida was making satisfactory progress. During the year Indian hostilities in the West, Texas, New Mexico, and the Pacific, had been of frequent occurrence. The Sioux had been chastised in Kansas and Nebraska, and the Indians in Texas guilty of outrages upon frontier inhabitants and emigrants had been summarily punished by the troops sent against them. At