"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson DavisThis new study of 'Prison life' places the work and these two years in proper perspective. Davis was imprisoned and Craven was assigned to be his physician, not much more than that should be accepted as fact. This edition reproduces Davis's annotations and comments from his personal copy, along with editorial notes and explanations. It also provides a clear, objective description of Davis's life at Fort Monroe, based on evidence and Davis's own letters from prison. |
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... future — a future full of golden promise , a future full of recompense for honorable endeavor , a future of expanding national glory , before which all the world shall stand amazed . Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor , all ...
... future — a future full of golden promise , a future full of recompense for honorable endeavor , a future of expanding national glory , before which all the world shall stand amazed . Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor , all ...
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... future . When the Valley is reached , however , the population is com- paratively dense - twenty to the square mile ; and political economy teaches that no people so numerous can be crushed out by coloniza- tion . A new race must come ...
... future . When the Valley is reached , however , the population is com- paratively dense - twenty to the square mile ; and political economy teaches that no people so numerous can be crushed out by coloniza- tion . A new race must come ...
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... future . One of X their great troubles in agricultural districts must be the difficulty of get- ting draft animals - horses , mules , and oxen having been so nearly swept away by the war . With nothing to regret in the past but its ...
... future . One of X their great troubles in agricultural districts must be the difficulty of get- ting draft animals - horses , mules , and oxen having been so nearly swept away by the war . With nothing to regret in the past but its ...
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