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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 43: visit to New Orleans and admission to Fortress Monroe. (search)
roe to see Mr. Davis. The visit was simply friendly, and not for any purpose relating to his liberation. On May 14, 1867, Mr. Davis was delivered to the civil authority; was at once admitted to bail, Mr. Greeley and Mr. Gerrit Smith going personally to Richmond, in attestation of their belief that wrong had been done to Mr. Davis in holding him so long accused upon those charges, now abandoned. Commodore Vanderbilt signed the bond through Mr. Horace F. Clark, his son-in-law, and Mr. Augustus Schell, his friend. Mr. Greeley's enormous sacrifice to compel justice to be done to one man, and he an enemy, should be written. Mr. Thaddeus Stevens, in May, 1866, related to me how the Chief of this Military Bureau showed him the evidence upon which the proclamation was issued charging Messrs. Davis and Clay with complicity in the assassination of Mr. Lincoln. He said he refused to give the thing support, and that he said the evidence was insufficient and incredible. I am not