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Tag Archives: Jefferson Davis
7 January 1863: “President Davis passed down in the cars on Saturday last, on his return to Richmond…”
Item description: Newspaper article, “President Davis,” as published in the 7 January 1863 issue of the Hillsborough Recorder. The article describes President Jefferson Davis’ visit to North Carolina. Item citation: “President Davis,” Hillsborough Recorder. 7 January 1863. Hillsborough, N.C. : Dennis Heartt, 1820-1879. C071 … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged Hillsborough, Jefferson Davis, newspapers, North Carolina, speeches, The Hillsborough Recorder
Comments Off on 7 January 1863: “President Davis passed down in the cars on Saturday last, on his return to Richmond…”
5 January 1863: “Alice and the little girls came safely to hand on Saturday in company with President Davis who made a pretty little speech at the station.”
Item description: Letter, 5 January 1863, from Paul Cameron to Thomas Ruffin. Item citation: From folder 453 in the Thomas Ruffin Papers #641 in the Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Item transcription: Hillsboro, Jany. 5th ’63 My Dear … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Cameron family, Fairntosh, Jefferson Davis, North Carolina, Paul Cameron, peace, Thomas Ruffin
Comments Off on 5 January 1863: “Alice and the little girls came safely to hand on Saturday in company with President Davis who made a pretty little speech at the station.”
29 October 1862: “Genl. Bragg cannot move into Middle Tenn. with prospect of success without your cooperation.”
Item description: Letter, 29 October 1862, from Jefferson Davis to Edmund Kirby-Smith. In the letter, Davis expresses his disappointment of the Confederate retreat from Kentucky into Tennessee but also seems to justify his decision to keep Gen. Braxton Bragg in … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Braxton Bragg, Edmund Kirby-Smith, Jefferson Davis, Kentucky, Kentucky Campaign, Tennessee
Comments Off on 29 October 1862: “Genl. Bragg cannot move into Middle Tenn. with prospect of success without your cooperation.”
22 August 1862: “Feeling a deep interest and even anxiety in the speedy and faithful execution of the conscript law, I cannot allow myself to be represented as opposed or even neutral towards it.”
Item description: Clerk’s copy of a letter, dated 22 August 1862, from North Carolina Governor Henry T. Clark to Confederate President Jefferson Davis. The letter continues a discussion about conscription among Clark, Davis, Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Confederate conscription laws, conscription, executive power, George W. Randolph, governors, Henry T. Clark, Jefferson Davis, Peter Mallett
Comments Off on 22 August 1862: “Feeling a deep interest and even anxiety in the speedy and faithful execution of the conscript law, I cannot allow myself to be represented as opposed or even neutral towards it.”
5 August 1862: “Major Mallett reports that the desertions are numerous and that 200 men overpowered 10 guards and went off in a body.”
Item description: Clerk’s copy of a letter, dated 5 August 1862, from Confederate Secretary of War George W. Randolph to Jefferson Davis. The letter concerns conscription. Peter Mallett was a merchant of Fayetteville, N.C., and New York City; and a … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Confederate conscription laws, conscription, George W. Randolph, Jefferson Davis, Peter Mallett
Comments Off on 5 August 1862: “Major Mallett reports that the desertions are numerous and that 200 men overpowered 10 guards and went off in a body.”
1 April 1862: “The President does things pretty much in his own way, without consulting anyone and takes the responsibility upon himself and has give us a cabinet which is not satisfactory to the country.”
Item description: Letter, Burgess S. Gaither to Thomas Ruffin, 1 April 1862. Gaither, a Burke County, N.C., politician and member of the Confederate Congress wrote of the military disaster in which Roanoke Island was lost and the resulting investigation. He … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged artillery, Burgess S. Gaither, casualties, Col. Henry M. Shaw, Gen. Benjamin Huger, Gen. D. H. Hill, Gen. Henry A. Wise, Gen. Lawrence O. Branch, Gen. Richard C. Gatlin, Gen. Walter Gwynn, Jefferson Davis, Roanoke Island, Thomas Ruffin
Comments Off on 1 April 1862: “The President does things pretty much in his own way, without consulting anyone and takes the responsibility upon himself and has give us a cabinet which is not satisfactory to the country.”
8 January 1862: “[President Jefferson Davis] never names Beauregard. I think, after all, he does not like him or think much of him. I am not sure but the Sec’y of War is in the same category.”
Item description: Entry, 8 January 1862, from the diary of Thomas Bragg (Attorney General of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1863), written in Richmond, Va. Bragg comments on Confederate foreign relations, arrangements for the delivery of mail abroad, events in … Continue reading
Posted in Southern Historical Collection
Tagged Confederate cabinet, Confederate States of America, foreign relations, Jefferson Davis, Missouri, Richmond, Thomas Bragg, Virginia
Comments Off on 8 January 1862: “[President Jefferson Davis] never names Beauregard. I think, after all, he does not like him or think much of him. I am not sure but the Sec’y of War is in the same category.”
6 December 1861: “…we, the delegates of the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, entertain an undiminished confidence in the justice of the cause for which we have taken up arms…”
Item description: A resolution by North Carolina’s Secession Convention expressing confidence in the cause that the Southern States had undertaken, in the president of the Confederate States, and its soldiers. Item transcription: [No. 6.] RESOLUTIONS OF CONFIDENCE IN OUR CAUSE … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged convention, Jefferson Davis, North Carolina, resolutions, Secession Convention
Comments Off on 6 December 1861: “…we, the delegates of the people of North Carolina, in Convention assembled, entertain an undiminished confidence in the justice of the cause for which we have taken up arms…”
18 November 1861: “We are gradually becoming independent of the rest of the world for the supply of such military stores”
Item description: President’s message: to the Congress of the Confederate States, written from Richmond on November 18, 1861. Davis gives a general overview of the current state of the war, comments on the neutrality of Kentucky, the current state of communication … Continue reading
Posted in Rare Book Collection
Tagged Jefferson Davis, Kentucky
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14 November 1861: “The President of the Confederate States having appointed Friday, the 15th inst., as a day of ‘fasting, humiliation and prayer’…”
Item description: In the Wilmington Daily Journal of 14 November 1861, this notice from John Dawson, mayor of Wilmington, was posted. The notice states that God is the only hope “to achieve success in the great struggle for liberty and … Continue reading
Posted in North Carolina Collection
Tagged day of fasting and prayer, fasting, home front, homefront, Jefferson Davis, John Dawson, prayer, religion, religious beliefs, Wilmington, Wilmington (N.C.) Daily Journal
Comments Off on 14 November 1861: “The President of the Confederate States having appointed Friday, the 15th inst., as a day of ‘fasting, humiliation and prayer’…”