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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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s other ou s and atrocities hereafter to be mentioned, afford evidence only too conclusive that the said Government sanctions the conduct of said Butler and is determined that he shall remain unpunished for his crimes: Now therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and in their name, do pronounce and declare the said Benjamin F. Butter to be a falon deserving of capital punishment. I do order that he be no longer considered or treated simply as a publicws of nations, the dictates of reason, and the instincts of humanity would be addressed in vain to our enemies and that they can be deterred from the commission of these crimes only by the terrors of just retribution: Now, therefore, I, Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, and acting by their authority, appealing to the Divins Judge in attestation that their conduct is not guided by the passion of revenge, but that they reluctantly yield to the solemn duty of re
esses with respect to all commissioned officers of the United States when found serving in company with armed slaves in insurrection against the authorities of the different States of this Confederacy. In testimony whereof. I have signed three presents, and caused the seal of the Confederate States of America to be affixed thereto, at the city of Richmond, on this 23d day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-two. (Signed) Jefferson Davis By. the President: J. P. Benjamin, de 23--10t Secretary of State.
if not to Gen. Lee, does the illustrious Pope owe it that he is left in full contemplation of his glory in the Siberia of Minnesota? To whom but to him is the "young Napoleon" indebted for his exile to the St. Helena of Trenton, where he has no consolation but to furnish his double to the world through the medium of his faithful Lascassas, Bennet, or his admiring O Meara John Van Buren? We are afraid that it will be but too easy to convict Gen. Lee of all these offences, and we hope President Davis wid punish him as each conduct degerves to be puntabed. It is quite evident to our minds that if the "Young Napoleon" had been allowed to "take Richmond" quietly, his fortunes never would have taken the downward turn that they afterwards experienced Instead of becoming a just and a bye word in every country under the sun for boasting of victories which he never gained and lying about victories which were disastrous defaults he would have been the foremost man of all the world. Now