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Browsing named entities in a specific section of Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1. Search the whole document.
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Chapter 15: resignation from the army.-marriage to Miss Taylor.-Cuban visit.-winter in Washington.-President van Buren.-return to Brierfield, 1837.
Lieutenant Davis's service had been arduous, and from his first day on the frontier until his last, he had always been a candidate for every duty in which he could be of use, and his conduct had been recognized by the promotion accorded to him by his government.
The snows of the Northwest had affected his eyes seriously; his health was somewha seph E. Davis.
This was accepted, and he, with his friend and servant James Pemberton — of whom he spoke in the fragment of his Autobiography given in this memoir-and ten negroes whom he bought with a loan from his brother, went to work on The Brierfield tract, so called because of a dense growth of briers which were interlocked over the land.
The cane was too thick to be uprooted or cut, and they burned it, and then dug little holes in the ground and put in the cotton-seed, which made an unus
St. Louis (Missouri, United States) (search for this): chapter 15
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Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 15
Chapter 15: resignation from the army.-marriage to Miss Taylor.-Cuban visit.-winter in Washington.-President van Buren.-return to Brierfield, 1837.
Lieutenant Davis's service had been arduous, a suddenly decided to sail in her to New York, whither she was bound.
From thence he went to Washington, and was so fortunate as to get in a congressional mess with Mr. Benton, General George Jones, I was the last delegate to Congress from the Michigan Territory, that Jefferson Davis reached Washington in the winter and immediately called to see me where I was staying, at Dawson's boarding-house dewalk had no pavement.
The boards laid across had no handrail or other guide: so quickly has Washington sprung into a large, bustling, and well-ordered City!
Then, the mall began in the first squar it was simply a garden for acclimatizing foreign plants for utilitarian purposes.
While in Washington Mr. Davis paid a visit to the President, and was introduced by the Hon. Franklin Pierce. Mr. V