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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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head overseer Lincoln gave an order for 75,000 assistants to join him; for the purpose of whipping his Southern brethren into strict submission to his ill-gotten authority. This prospect of brethren shedding each others' blood was to much for Uncle Sam to bear, in his senility and imbecility, which had been annually increasing. He died the very day the bloody order was issued. "Requiescat in pace." It may be gratifying to the surviving friends of Uncle Sam to learn that the most of his Southern children have appointed the Hon. Jeff. Davis overseer, and declare their intention, with his assistance, to wrest the old family mansion from its present vulgar occupants; thoroughly cleanse, ventilate, fumigate, and repair it, ferret out the rate, stop up their holes, smoke out the bats, and thus restore it to the beauty and purity which it exhibited when it was occupied by George Washington, the first and best of Uncle Sam's overseers. B. Carolinensis. Hillsboro', May 17, 1861.
st substantial looking companies we have seen for many a day, arrived in Richmond yesterday. Col. Isaac M. Partridge, editor of the Vicksburg Whig, is the flag-bearer of the company, which, on passing the Spotswood Hotel, halted and saluted President Davis by a "Present Arms."--The men were reviewed and briefly addressed by his Excellency, who, as Gen. Davis commanded the Mississippi Regiment, of which the "Southrons" formed a part. The conclusion of the President's address was followed by imerday. Col. Isaac M. Partridge, editor of the Vicksburg Whig, is the flag-bearer of the company, which, on passing the Spotswood Hotel, halted and saluted President Davis by a "Present Arms."--The men were reviewed and briefly addressed by his Excellency, who, as Gen. Davis commanded the Mississippi Regiment, of which the "Southrons" formed a part. The conclusion of the President's address was followed by immense cheering, after which the company proceeded up 8th street towards its quarters.
ion. It also appeared that at the time of his arrest a quantity of papers were found on his person, among which were three letters from L. P. Walker, Gov. Pettus, of Mississippi, and Senator James Green, and that he claimed to be indignant at Jeff. Davis for not having ratified the bargain between himself and Walker. Davis, he said, tendered him an office of lower rank in the service of the Confederate States than that which he should have held, and they had a rupture in consequence. The coneen, and that he claimed to be indignant at Jeff. Davis for not having ratified the bargain between himself and Walker. Davis, he said, tendered him an office of lower rank in the service of the Confederate States than that which he should have held, and they had a rupture in consequence. The contents of these letters have not yet been given to the jury. Col. Anderson will be examined to prove the occupation of Fort Moultrie, which is one of the acts of war recited in the indictment.