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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2 1,039 11 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 29. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 833 7 Browse Search
Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 1 656 14 Browse Search
The Annals of the Civil War Written by Leading Participants North and South (ed. Alexander Kelly McClure) 580 0 Browse Search
Alfred Roman, The military operations of General Beauregard in the war between the states, 1861 to 1865 459 3 Browse Search
Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 435 13 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3. 355 1 Browse Search
Edward Alfred Pollard, The lost cause; a new Southern history of the War of the Confederates ... Drawn from official sources and approved by the most distinguished Confederate leaders. 352 2 Browse Search
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 333 7 Browse Search
Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 1. 330 2 Browse Search
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The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], Official report of Brig.-Gen. Floyd of the battle of Fort Donelson (search)
the propriety of a suspension of Regiment in relation to the disaster at Fort Donelson, until official reports could be received. I regret that the information now furnished is so defective. In the meantime, hopeful that satisfactory explanation may be made, I have directed, upon the exhibition of the case as presented by the two senior Generals, that they should be relieved from command, to await further orders whenever a reliable judgment can be rendered on the merits of the case. Jefferson Davis. [copy]Camp near Murfreesboro, February 27, 1862. General A S Johnson Sir: Your order of the 12th of this month, transmitted to me by telegraph from Bowling Green to Cumberland City, reached me the same evening. It directed me to repair at once with what force I could command, to the support of the garrison at Fort Donelson. I immediately prepared for my departure, and effected it in time to reach Fort Donelson the next morning, 18th, before daylight. Measures had been a
The Daily Dispatch: March 12, 1862., [Electronic resource], The Yankee Programme in North Carolina. (search)
Proclamation. By virtue of the power vested in me by law to declare the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus in e les threatened with invasion-- I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, do proclaim that Martial law is hereby extended over the city of Petersburg and the adjoining and surrounding country to the distance of ten mile, and do proclaim the suspension of all civil jurisdiction, (with the exception of that of the Mayor of the cipus within the said city and surrounding country to the distance aforesaid. In faith whereof I have hereunto signed my name and set my seal, on the eighth day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two (Signed,) Jefferson Davis II, William Pannill is appointed Provost Marshal, and is charged with the due execution of the foregoing Proclamation, and will forthwith establish an efficient military police, and will enforce the following orders: "All distillat