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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 5. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The true story of the capture of Jefferson Davis. (search)
, for it surpasses in reckless audacity of invention anything else that he has told us. From a subsequent remark of General Wilson, it seems likely that his only authority for some of his statements-perhaps for this, among others — is that of Pollard, who wrote a defamatory Life of Jefferson Davis. The book is so utterly worthless as authority, that the more intelligent and respectable, even of Mr. Davis' enemies, would blush to quote it. To appreciate this, we must remember that the Shenanduted to Colonel Pritchard. It would require too much space to point out in detail all the misrepresentations in General Wilson's account of this affair. I shall copy merely a paragraph. After quoting from the account of the capture given by Pollard, who, although one of the most virulent and unscrupulous of President Davis' enemies, has rejected the contemptible fiction of the petticoat story, he says: Between the two explanations given above, nearly all the truth has been told, for D