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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 38: Secretary of War, 1853-57. (search)
or Bache, of the coast survey, could speak, he would say, of the fine work of which he was the accomplished head, and which has latterly proved its incalculable usefulness, that Jefferson Davis was as conversant with the smallest minutiae of the noble institution as any man not directly connected with it. He was passionately devoted to the Smithsonian Institute, of which he was a regent in former times. He devoted himself to the decoration of the capital, and stood by Captain (now General) Meigs in all his efforts to construct the waterworks, finish the Capitol building on the grandest scale, and to push forward the extension of the interior of the Treasury department. He was undoubtedly a great Secretary of War, and in this high office nothing delighted him as to take young men by the hand, and, when worthy, advance them. In summing up the many services rendered by Mr. Davis when Secretary of War, a writer in a Northern paper says: He revised the Army Regulations; he intro
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1, Chapter 40: social relations and incidents of Cabinet life, 1853-57. (search)
bores, but I soon gave up trying to understand heavy artillery, as too scientific for an unlearned listener. Colonel Montgomery Meigs was charged with the extension of the Capitol, and was a frequent visitor. Mr. Davis detailed him for the work, and never had man a more generous, ardent defender than Colonel Meigs found in my husband throughout his whole term in the Cabinet and Senate; for there were many attacks made upon him which Mr. Davis always accepted and defended as personal, and he certainly merited a more grateful memory than General Meigs seemed to have retained. Mr. Davis also gave Colonel Meigs's son an appointment as cadet at West Point, and followed the course of the promising boy with anxious interest. He became an Colonel Meigs's son an appointment as cadet at West Point, and followed the course of the promising boy with anxious interest. He became an officer in the Federal Army and was killed in the usual course of war, not murdered, as alleged, and our house was very sorrowful when his death was announced; he was little Johnnie Meigs to us, a boy we had seen grow up, and for whose success we ha
Admiral David D. Porter, The Naval History of the Civil War., Chapter 10: naval engagement at South-West pass.--the Gulf blockading squadron in November, 1861. (search)
ll appear from Mr. Fox's letter, which has been quoted. Captain Montgomery Meigs, of the Engineer Corps, had been thinking of a plan by whing in troops and mounting heavy guns. Neither Mr. Seward nor Captain Meigs believed in the plan to succor Fort Sumter. In their opinion tusiness, and was slow to act, though precious time was flying. Captain Meigs conferred with Lieut. D. D. Porter, who conceived the plan perfmptly that he did know, and then suggested the plan proposed by Captain Meigs. You are the very man I want, said the Secretary. Come with me to the President. At that moment Captain Meigs came in and accompanied the party. Those familiar with the early events of the Rebellion lans that had been proposed. He had talked with Mr. Seward and Captain Meigs, and was so heartily interested in the scheme, that he agreed tdone but write the necessary orders, Lieut. Porter wrote out and Capt. Meigs transcribed them. They were as follows: Executive Mansi