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Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 39: (search)
to come with all his forces to unite with him and make an attack upon Corinth. On the same day Price received a letter from General Ord, informing him that Lee's army had been destroyed at Antietam; that, therefore, the rebellion must soon terminate, and that, in order to spare the further effusion of blood, he gave him this opportunity to lay down his arms. Price replied, correcting the rumor about Lee's army, thanked Ord for his kind feeling, and promised to lay down his arms whenever Mr. Lincoln should acknowledge the independence of the Southern Confederacy, and not sooner. On that night General Price held a council of war, at which it was agreed on the next morning to fall back and make a junction with Van Dorn, it being now satisfactorily shown that the enemy was holding the line on our left instead of moving to reenforce Buell. The cavalry pickets had reported that a heavy force was moving from the south toward Iuka on the Jacinto road, to meet which General Little had adva
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 41: (search)
a victory is refuted by the fact that, when Lee halted on the banks of the Potomac, Meade, instead of attacking as a pursuing general would a defeated foe, halted also, and commenced entrenching. The battle of Gettysburg has been the subject of an unusual amount of discussion, and the enemy has made it a matter of extraordinary exultation. As an affair of arms it was marked by mighty feats of valor to which both combatants may point with military pride. It was a graceful thing in President Lincoln if, as reported, when he was shown the steeps which the Northern men persistently held he answered, I am proud to be the countryman of the men who assailed those heights. The consequences of the battle have justified the amount of attention it has received. It may be regarded as the most eventful struggle of the war. By it the drooping spirit of the North was revived. Had their army been there defeated, those having better opportunities to judge than I or anyone who was not among
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 43: (search)
tempt to enroll able-bodied negroes the governor Visits Washington arrests, imprisonment, and exile of citizens suspension of the writ of habeas corpus by President Lincoln interference with the state election order to the sheriffs proclamation of the governor enlistment of slaves emancipation by constitutional amendment vof the United States to have the order revoked, and protested against any person who offered to vote being put to any test not found in the laws of Maryland. President Lincoln declined to interfere with the order, except in one less important point. The governor issued a proclamation on the day preceding the election, which the mits of these men are part of the glorious history of loyal heroism. The next step in the progress of the subjugation of the state government was taken by President Lincoln on July 5, 1864, when he issued a proclamation establishing martial law throughout the state, and the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. Civil proceedi
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 44: (search)
ent of the United States with the state election. This was in 1864, when President Lincoln and General McClellan were the candidates for the presidency of the UniteApril 15, 1865, combine, confederate, and conspire together to murder President Abraham Lincoln, Vice-President Andrew Johnson, Lieutenant-General U. S. Grant, and Secretary of State William H. Seward. President Lincoln had been shot, and Secretary Seward was badly wounded with a knife. The others were uninjured. The sen appeared that I, Jefferson Davis, was implicated in the assassination of President Lincoln, and for that reason he offered a reward of one hundred thousand dollars alleged complicity of Jefferson Davis with the assassination of the late President Lincoln, or words to that effect. George S. Boutwell was chairman of the committ Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, during the war. This sentence was changed by President Lincoln to banishment to the Confederate States. This military usurpation was sp
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 49: (search)
r, facilitate, and aid this effort, said President Lincoln, in the first proclamation, calling for d into a national Union. I appeal, says President Lincoln, to all loyal citizens to favor, facilite and reprisal to seamen. On April 19th President Lincoln issued a counter-proclamation, declaringy a special messenger a communication to President Lincoln, in substance as follows: Having leaington, but was refused an audience with President Lincoln. He was obliged to content himself withouses of Congress united in a request to President Lincoln to take immediate steps for a general ex, in Washington, under instructions from President Lincoln, empowering the military commanders in Von the ground that it is not addressed to Abraham Lincoln as President, instead of Commander-in-Chial forces of the Confederate States. To Abraham Lincoln, Commander-in-Chief of the land and navalties at Washington. It was of no avail; President Lincoln refused to see them. They were made to [2 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 50: (search)
with him my letter to him response of President Lincoln three persons sent by me to an informalyears held friendly relations with myself. Mr. Lincoln stopped him, though he afterward gave him pand, from the circumstances, concluded that Mr. Lincoln avoided the interview, and therefore came nredentials but without such instructions from Lincoln as enabled him to speak for him. His views, tnegotiation, and my inability to see—unless Mr. Lincoln's course in that regard should be changed— e first step. He expressed the belief that Mr. Lincoln would now receive commissioners, but subsequrn to Washington to explain his project to Mr. Lincoln, and notify me, if his hope proved well foutering into negotiations. He affirmed that Mr. Lincoln did not sympathize with the radical men whoent to perform it. On March 4, 1861, President Lincoln appeared on the western portico of the Crein. Thus the Constitution itself nullified Lincoln's proclamation, and made it of no force whate[21 more...]<
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Chapter 54: (search)
isions of the line of retreat notice of President Lincoln's assassination correspondence between ignation manifested when it became known that Lincoln had offered to our commissioners at Hampton Rtion received from General Sherman, that President Lincoln had been assassinated. An influential c, General Sherman describes an interview with Lincoln, held at City Point on the 27th and 28th of March preceding, in which he says: Mr. Lincoln distinctly authorized me to assure Governor Vancetilities; moreover, that he was instructed by Lincoln to give any terms to obtain the surrender of : Then, recalling the conversation with Mr. Lincoln at City Point, I sat down at the table and But while these matters were progressing, Lincoln had been assassinated, and a vindictive polic From the memoranda of the interview between Lincoln and Sherman it is clearly to be inferred thatmplice in the assassination of the late President A. Lincoln. Some troops by the wayside had the pr[2 more...]
Jefferson Davis, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Index (search)
592. Reconstruction, 608-40. Conference between Lincoln and representaties of border states, 155. Confis 436. Jefferson, 391, 425. Extract from letter to Lincoln concerning treatment of prisoners of captured shipsng letters of marque and reprisal, 494. Message to Lincoln concerning treatment of prisoners, 494-95. Letters Battle of, 14. Liddel, General, 456. Lincoln, Abraham, President U. S., 66, 68, 69, 73-74, 82, 87, 114, 22. Permanent proclamation, 158, 161. Excerpts from Lincoln's declarations of 1861, 159-60. Order for provisioStrength of army, April 30. 1862, 87-88. Letter to Lincoln concerning action toward civilians, etc., 263-64. 1, 97, 114, 275,637. Court-martial, 87. Order from Lincoln to crush Jackson, 90. McFarland, —, 100. McGratrate naval operations, 9-10. English discussion of Lincoln's piracy proclamation, 10. Pitcairn, Major, 514.lumbia, 145-46. Emancipation in territories, 147. Lincoln's resolution recommended to Congress, 151. Prelimi
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