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James H. Wilson (search for this): chapter 1.5
few weeks after the appearance of that of General Wilson, which was the proximate occasion for its the temper, as well as the truthfulness of Gen. Wilson's narrative, may be found in its first parant spirit that seems to animate the pen of General Wilson, might form very different estimates of thin respect of matters of fact, contained in Gen. Wilson's first paragraph. [I am very desirous of rs. Davis, are pure fiction, presumably of General Wilson's own invention; for it is well known thatnt. 4th. He was also accompanied, says General Wilson, by three members of his Cabinet, Breckinrd any notice that they were wanted there. General Wilson qualifies this particular statement by theas told us. From a subsequent remark of General Wilson, it seems likely that his only authority f fatuous or not fatuous, as represented by General Wilson. No council of war was held at Abbeville.m any unmanly display of weakness, such as General Wilson has pretended to relate. A brave man may [14 more...]
Jefferson Davis (search for this): chapter 1.5
n's own invention; for it is well known that Mrs. Davis and all the President's family had left Riched the falsity of the representation that President Davis had been preparing to leave the country, immediately connected with the capture of President Davis. In doing this, it will suffice to repeabridle-path to the road which it was thought Mrs. Davis' party had followed. A little before daybrees takes place in moments of imminent peril, Mr. Davis recalled an incident of his own experience tsitively that no such remark was made (about Mr. Davis' garb, means of rapid locomotion, &c.,) as i dishonor, disgrace, applied by Wilson to Jefferson Davis, admit of no reply that I care to make, aWilson has confounded opinions attributed to Mr. Davis by popular rumor (whether right or wrong) wiident of the United States for the arrest of Mr. Davis, and the charge against him of complicity inwhile on bail, the most strenuous efforts of Mr. Davis and his friends were to bring this charge of[51 more...]
Howell (search for this): chapter 1.5
ndicates its origin and use as an article of masculine attire. Indeed, there was no female grenadier in the President's party, whose cloak would have been capable of covering his entire person except the feet --he being a man of nearly six feet in height. It is also positively untrue that he carried a small tin pail. As already stated, there was a bucket in the hands of a colored female servant, whom the narrators seem to have indiscriminately confounded with President Davis, or with Miss Howell, (who was not in company with him,) as it might serve a purpose. But why this persistent effort to perpetuate a false and foolish story, which seems to have been originally invented for sensational purposes by a newspaper correspondent? Even if it had been true, there would have been nothing unworthy or discreditable in it. Princes and peers, statesmen and sages, heroes and patriots, in all ages, have held it permissible and honorable to escape from captivity in any guise whatever. T
WYilson (search for this): chapter 1.5
een them. He was conducted, with his family, to private rooms at the hotel where the Federal commander was quartered, and a message was brought, inquiring whether he preferred to call on General Wilson, or to receive him in his own apartments. The answer was, that he would call on General Wilson, to whom he was accordingly conducted. (There was a reason for this use of the option offered, which it is not necessary to state.) The conversation that followed is not correctly reported by General WYilson, except that part of it relating to West Point, which was introduced by himself. Those who know Mr. Davis' keen sense of social and official propriety will not need to be told that, what is said of his criticisms upon the principal Confederate leaders is purely fictitious. No such conversation occurred, and it is simply impossible that it could have occurred under the circumstances. I deny the statement on the best authority, but no authority besides that of the moral evidence woul
July 7th, 1877 AD (search for this): chapter 1.5
sent to the Philadelphia Times, in which General Wilson's paper had appeared, and which had agreed to publish it. In consequence, however, of protracted and unexplained delay in the fulfilment of this agreement, it was withdrawn from the office of that journal, after lying there for some months, and is now submitted to the readers of the Southern Historical Society Papers, with this explanation of the delay in its publication.] The publication, in the Philadelphia Weekly Times of July 7th, 1877, of an article by Major-General James H. Wilson, professing to give an account of the capture of the Confederate President in 1865, has not only revived a fictitious story circulated soon after that event occurred-perhaps still current. among the vulgar, though long since refuted-but has surrounded it with a cluster of new embellishments, which had heretofore been either unwritten history or unimagined fiction. To which of these classes they belong, the reader may be better able to det
August 2nd, 1877 AD (search for this): chapter 1.5
Herald, the day I got to Fort Delaware. I was astonished and denouned it as a falsehood. The next day I was placed in solitary confinement, and remained there. I do not believe it possible that these ten days could have been passed with our captors without an allusion to it, if it had not been an after-thought or something to be kept from us. Very sincerely yours, Wm. Preston Johnston. Letter from Ex-Governor Lubbock, of Texas, late aid to President Davis. Galveston, August 2d, 1877. Major W. T. Walthall: Dear sir: Yours of 28th came to hand a day or two since, finding me quite busy. At the earliest moment 1 perused the article you alluded to in your letter, which appeared in the Weekly Times, of Philadelphia, of July 7th. It does really appear that certain parties, with the view of keeping themselves before the public, will continue to write the most base, calumnious, and slanderous articles, calculated to keep the wounds of the past open and sore. Such a wr
May 13th (search for this): chapter 1.5
uccessful flight. In all this, as in what precedes it, there is scarcely an atom of truth. When Mr. Davis left Richmond he did not expect Lee to have to surrender. His preparations for defence at Danville would have been wholly inconsistent with such an expectation. Breckinridge was not sent to confer with Johnston, nor did he find him only in time to assist in drawing up the terms of his celebrated capitulation to Sherman. On the contrary, he arrived at Greensboroa on the 12th or 13th of May, in time to take part in a conference already in progress between President Davis and some of his Cabinet, Generals Johnston and Beauregard. Several days afterward he again met General Johnston, in response to a telegraphic request from the latter, in full time to take part in the negotiations with General Sherman, which resulted, on the 18th, not in the final capitulation, but in the armistice which the Government of the United States declined to ratify. General Breckinridge was not pre
September 4th, 1877 AD (search for this): chapter 1.5
m under all circumstances, and have ever found him good and true. How wretched the spirit that will continue to traduce such a man! How miserably contemptible the party that will refuse to recognize such a man as a citizen of the country in whose defence his best days were spent and his blood freely spilt! I have the honor to be, Yours very respectfully, F. R. Lubbock. Letter from the Hon. George Davis, late Attorney-General of the Confederate States. Wilmington, N. C., September 4th, 1877. Major W. T. Walthall: Dear sir: Your favor of the 14th ult. and the copy of the Philadelphia Times were duly received, but my engagements with the courts have prevented an earlier reply. I regret that I can give you but little information in aid of the purpose you have in mind, as I parted from Mr. Davis and the rest of the Cabinet at Charlotte; and the narrative of General Wilson professes to deal chiefly with events which occurred afterward. I was not present at the Cabine
May 12th (search for this): chapter 1.5
ir even of successful flight. In all this, as in what precedes it, there is scarcely an atom of truth. When Mr. Davis left Richmond he did not expect Lee to have to surrender. His preparations for defence at Danville would have been wholly inconsistent with such an expectation. Breckinridge was not sent to confer with Johnston, nor did he find him only in time to assist in drawing up the terms of his celebrated capitulation to Sherman. On the contrary, he arrived at Greensboroa on the 12th or 13th of May, in time to take part in a conference already in progress between President Davis and some of his Cabinet, Generals Johnston and Beauregard. Several days afterward he again met General Johnston, in response to a telegraphic request from the latter, in full time to take part in the negotiations with General Sherman, which resulted, on the 18th, not in the final capitulation, but in the armistice which the Government of the United States declined to ratify. General Breckinridge
May 27th, 1876 AD (search for this): chapter 1.5
de of his own troops, and to recite their movements — a task which, in the absence of any other information, I can only presume that he has performed with more fidelity to truth than is exhibited in the other parts of his article — I now proceed briefly to narrate the facts immediately connected with the capture of President Davis. In doing this, it will suffice to repeat the substance, and, in general, the very words of a narrative published more than a year ago (in the Mobile Cycle of May 27th, 1876), which probably met the eye of but few who will be readers of the present article. Proceeding in either case from the same pen, it will be unnecessary to designate such passages as are repetitions of the same language by quotation marks. The movements of President Davis and his Cabinet, after the evacuation of Richmond, on the night of the 2d of April, are related with substantial accuracy in Alfriend's Life of Jefferson Davis -a great part of them in the words of a narrative writte
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