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Varina Davis, Jefferson Davis: Ex-President of the Confederate States of America, A Memoir by his Wife, Volume 2, Chapter 74: after release in 1867, to 1870. (search)
ing her children once more together. Her health had long been precarious, and after some months, much to Mr. Davis's regret, she went to a Southern friend in Bennington, Vt., for a visit. In the meantime we had moved to Lenoxville, to be near Bishop's College for our little boys, as there was a good dame school attached. We rvants about the table invariably condensed the menu of our good plain fare into the invitation, Beef or beans? My mother was seized with a severe illness in Bennington. I went there to bring her almost in extremis as far as Montreal, and in Bennington had additional proof of how far party and sectional rancor could carry peopBennington had additional proof of how far party and sectional rancor could carry people, and how pitiless they become. She was old, exceptionally weak, could not rally, and died at the house of Mr. John Lovell, whose family gave us every care and assistance that friendship could render. In our mother Mr. Davis lost his dearest friend, and as much of virtue as could die perished with her. He mourned sincerely,