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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Memoir of Jane Claudia Johnson. (search)
ister to Spain, was amply qualified by graces of person and mind and the force of her will, to accomplish an enterprise which required the daring gallantry of a man with the persuasive power and perseverance of a woman. Accordingly, on the 24th of May she left the camps of Companies A and B, at the Point of Rocks, escorted by Capt. Wilson C. Nicholas, of Company G, and Lieutenant George M. E. Shearer, of Company A, and tried to get to Richmond by way of Leesburg and Alexandria. Finding thecles and fetters upon the hands and feet of Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay whenever he may deem it advisable in order to render their imprisonment more secure. (1 21 War of Rebellion, p. 565.) Under this permit General Miles, on the 24th day of May, wrote to Dana: Yesterday I directed that irons be put on Davis' ankles, which he violently resisted, but became more quiet afterward. (121 War of Rebellion, p. 570-71.) This was going a little too far even for the official stomach of th
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), The trials and trial of Jefferson Davis. (search)
rt, Mr. Dana, alarmed probably by remembering that the strong arm of the young Major- General had been removed from Davis' limbs, wrote in the name of the Secretary of War: Brevet-Major-General Miles is hereby authorized and directed to place manacles and fetters upon the hands and feet of Jefferson Davis and Clement C. Clay whenever he may deem it advisable in order to render their imprisonment more secure. (1 21 War of Rebellion, p. 565.) Under this permit General Miles, on the 24th day of May, wrote to Dana: Yesterday I directed that irons be put on Davis' ankles, which he violently resisted, but became more quiet afterward. (121 War of Rebellion, p. 570-71.) This was going a little too far even for the official stomach of the non-combatants. The communication was probably intended only for the sympathetic eye of Dana, but the battle-scarred veterans, assigned to this ignoble guard duty became restive, and the fact of the use of irons leaked out, and the newspapers gave