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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 20 : the Executive mansion-the hospitals. (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 23 : Shiloh , 1862 .-Corinth . (search)
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 41 : fall of Vicksburg , July 4 , 1863 . (search)
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 42 : President Davis 's letter to General Johnston after the fall of Vicksburg . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 45 : Chickamauga and Missionary Ridge . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 50 : Virginia campaign, 1864 . (search)
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 53 : battle of Drury's Bluff , May 16 , 1864 . (search)
Chapter 53: battle of Drury's Bluff, May 16, 1864.
Grant's plan of campaign was, if he should be unable to defeat Lee, or fail to take Richmond, to cross the James River below Richmond, and possess himself of Petersburg, cut off the supplies f main body of his own force, together with the detachment from General Lee's army, that he should join General Lee, crush Grant, and march to Washington.
Mr. Davis, in Rise and Fall.
The following is the communication alluded to above.
Con ousand men to unite with Breckenridge and fall upon the enemy's flank with over twenty thousand effectives-thus rendering Grant's defeat certain and decisive; and in time to enable General Beauregard to return, with a reinforcement from General Lee, can be effected, and the picture presented is one of starvation.
Without it General Lee must eventually fall back before Grant's heavy reinforcements, and the view presented merely anticipates this movement for offensive purposes.
Meantime it is i
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 45 : exchange of prisoners and Andersonville . (search)
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 59 : surrender of Lee . (search)
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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 62 : leaving Charlotte .—The rumors of surrender. (search)