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The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], From Gen. Lee 's army — fight in Culpeper county . (search)
The Daily Dispatch: August 3, 1863., [Electronic resource], The situation in Mississippi --Grant gone back to Vicksburg . (search)
Robbery of President Davis's Library.
A Yankee letter, dated near Jackson, Miss., July 12th, says:
Yesterday, a company of cavalry, escorting a foraging train, learned from a negro where the extensive library of Jeff. Davis was secreted.
They proceeded to the house, and there found thousands of volumes of books several bushels of private and political papers of the arch traitor, written by traitors North and traitors South.
Some of these papers were brought late camp, and served as novel literature for our officers and men.
In addition to there, several valuable gold headed walking canes were found--one of them presented to Davis by Franklin on another one was the inscription, "From a soldier to a soldier's friend."
In many of the letters the subject of secession was warmly discoursed.
Some of the letters date back as far as 1852.
Many of the more prominent writers accept the separation of the North and the South as a foregone conclusion, but only disagree a