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Andrew Johnson (search for this): chapter 1.5
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 present and took no part in the celebrated capitulation. [See Johnson's Narrative, pages 396-407.] There was no such change of plan , fatuous or not fatuous, as represented by General Wilson. No council of war was held at Abbeville. General Bragg was not at Abbeville. No cavalry commander was a member of thef Mr. Lincoln, inquiring whether he had heard of it. I have, was the answer, and there is one man who knows it to be a lie. By one man rejoined Wilson, I presume you mean some one particular man? I do, answered Mr. Davis; I mean the man [Andrew Johnson] who signed the proclamation; for he knows that I would a thousand times rather have Abraham Lincoln to deal with, as President of the United States, than to have him. This was said with the full expectation that it would be reported. The
William Preston Johnston (search for this): chapter 1.5
on. Breckinridge was not sent to confer with Johnston, nor did he find him only in time to assist igard. Several days afterward he again met General Johnston, in response to a telegraphic request frotice, they discussed the question whether, if Johnston made a point of it, he (Sherman) should assenif Johnston [had] made a point of it; but General Johnston made no such point. He knew, no doubt, tapitulation another. The capitulation of General Johnston did not take place until after the armistthe Confederate States, who was not under General Johnston's command, and who had no part whatever i be found interesting letters from Colonels Wm. Preston Johnston and F. R. Lubbock, (Ex-Governor oft from us. Very sincerely yours, Wm. Preston Johnston. Letter from Ex-Governor Lubbock, before the morning of our capture, Colonel William P. Johnston slept very near the tent. Colonel r camp. Mr. Davis, Judge Reagan, Colonel William Preston Johnston, Colonel John Taylor Wood, a youn[9 more...]
Trenholm (search for this): chapter 1.5
needs no further comment. 4th. He was also accompanied, says General Wilson, by three members of his Cabinet, Breckinridge, Benjamin, and Reagan. He was really accompanied by five members of his Cabinet, Messrs. Benjamin, Mallory, Reagan, Trenholm, and Davis; Gen. Breckinridge was not among them, and did not leave Richmond until the next morning. The misstatement in this case is altogether immaterial. It seems to spring out of the very wantonness and exuberance of untruthfulness in the lia Courthouse for Lee's army, had thence been ordered to Richmond, and had abandoned the supplies for a more ignoble freight. With regard to the first of these statements, it need only be said that the gold which was taken was in charge of Mr. Trenholm, the Secretary of the Treasury. How and where he packed it, I am not informed; but it is not at all likely that it was packed among the President's baggage. As to the other point, waiving all question of the nobility or ignobility of the C
Amelia Courthonse (search for this): chapter 1.5
olm, the Secretary of the Treasury. How and where he packed it, I am not informed; but it is not at all likely that it was packed among the President's baggage. As to the other point, waiving all question of the nobility or ignobility of the Confederate President and Cabinet, considered as freight, it is enough to say that they traveled by a passenger train, not adapted nor employed for carrying provisions; and moreover, that, if supplies had been sent by this or any other train to Amelia Courthonse, a village on the Richmond and Danville railroad, they were no doubt sent through it, on the way to Richmond. The Commissary-General of the Confederate army has shown in a recent publication (Southern Historical Society Papers for March, 1877), that no requisition for supplies to be sent to Amelia Courthouse was ever received by him or his assistants, and that the Secretary of War had no knowledge of any such. Mr. Harvie, the president at that time of the Danville road, also testifie
F. R. Lubbock (search for this): chapter 1.5
hn Taylor Wood (formerly of the Confederate Navy), and Colonel Lubbock, of Texas, Aids to the President, he set off on his joeresting letters from Colonels Wm. Preston Johnston and F. R. Lubbock, (Ex-Governor of Texas), both of whom were aids to Prespress of intelligent and conscientious truthfulness. Governor Lubbock writes more briefly and with freer expression of honethes. The same man, I believe, captured Colonels Wood and Lubbock just after. One of my captors ordered me to the camp-fire nobody on that side of the slough. He then rode off. Colonel Lubbock had a conversation nearly identical with Colonel Pritcrd, who was not polite, I believe. You can learn from Colonel Lubbock about it. Not long afterwards, seeing Mr. Davis in erely yours, Wm. Preston Johnston. Letter from Ex-Governor Lubbock, of Texas, late aid to President Davis. Galvestt! I have the honor to be, Yours very respectfully, F. R. Lubbock. Letter from the Hon. George Davis, late Attorney-
Raphael Semmes (search for this): chapter 1.5
ate naval history may serve to confirm them. The death of the illustrious author soon after it was written invests it with a painful interest: Letter from Admiral Semmes. Mobile, Alabama, August 13th, 1877. Major W. T. Walthall: Dear sir: You are quite right as to the locus in quo of the Shenandoah. She was either in have been consulted as to the whereabouts of the Shenandoah and the means of reaching her. Nothing of the kind transpired. I remain very truly yours, &c., Raphael Semmes. General Wilson continues: When Davis and his companions left Richmond in pursuance of this plan, they believed that Lee could avoid surrender only y are too manifold even for enumeration. Enough bas been said to show how utterly unworthy of credit is his evidence in support of any statement whatever. Admiral Semmes, in the letter above copied, has briefly noticed the falsity of the representation that President Davis had been preparing to leave the country, or had even e
Anne Page (search for this): chapter 1.5
of an account of the capture, in the Atlantic monthly for September, 1865, who is identified by General Wilson as an officer of his command, chuckles over the appropriation of what he elegantly and politely styles Jeff's wines and other amenities --that is to say, the private stores of Mrs. Davis and her family — for Mr. Davis carried no stores — in a tone of sportive exultation, as if it were a very good thing. tIe tells it in a vein that reminds one of Master Slander's desire to have Mrs. Anne Page hear the capital joke about his father's stealing two geese out of a pen. The same writer gives us, in the same jocose vein, an account of a brutal indignity offered by his brigade band to the illustrious prisoner, of which — if it ever occurred — the object of it was happily unconscious. He also tells us that Mrs. Davis was very watchful lest some disrespect should be shown her husband; whereas the true and manifest cause of her anxiety was the wifely apprehension that some pretext
Pritchard (search for this): chapter 1.5
ssible, gave the required information. Wben Colonel Pritchard appeared upon the scene, President. Davis, une any complaint of the language or demeanor of Colonel Pritchard to himself, personally. Among the remarks madid locomotion, &c.,) as is there attributed to Colonel Pritchard. It would require too much space to point orge with a nolle prosequi. The remark about Colonel Pritchard is not correctly stated. No expression of a cbbock had a conversation nearly identical with Colonel Pritchard, who was not polite, I believe. You can learnds, seeing Mr. Davis in altercation with an officer-Colonel Pritchard--I went up. Mr. Davis was denunciatory i conduct was not that of gentlemen, but ruffians. Pritchard did not make the reply attributed to him; I could unced it a base falsehood. We were guarded by Colonel Pritchard's command until we reached Fortress Monroe. I. I cannot see how Mr. Davis could speak of Colonel Pritchard or his command with any degree of patience, as
Alfriend (search for this): chapter 1.5
ery 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 written by the late Mr. Mallory, Secretary of the Confederate Navyuntil the dispersion of the party at Washington, Georgia, where Mr. Mallory parted with him. It is not necessary to go over this ground. The incidents that follow have not been so well known, but I am enabled to give them on the best authority. If there is any inaccuracy or uncertainty, it is merely with regard to minor matters of dates, places, nam
John H. Reagan (search for this): chapter 1.5
rs of his Cabinet, Breckinridge, Benjamin, and Reagan, drove rapidly to the train which had been prers of his Cabinet, Breckinridge, Benjamin, and Reagan. He was really accompanied by five members of his Cabinet, Messrs. Benjamin, Mallory, Reagan, Trenholm, and Davis; Gen. Breckinridge was not amth these, under command of Captain Campbell; Mr. Reagan, Postmaster-General, and Colonel William Pre evidence, has appeared the letter of the Hon. John H. Reagan, Confederate Postmaster-General, publn Mississippi knows me. I also talked with Judge Reagan and Colonel Wood on this topic. The impresd I hear anything of the kind mentioned. Judge Reagan and myself had entered into a compact that y presented, telling him of my compact with Judge Reagan. He did escape. The conduct of the capt not one armed man in our camp. Mr. Davis, Judge Reagan, Colonel William Preston Johnston, Colonel all to my mind. A Captain Douglass stole Judge Reagan's saddle, and used it from the day we were
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