"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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... imprisonment , Mrs. Davis told a sympathetic correspondent that her husband " is the scape goat for the putative sins of the Confederacy , but unlike the mer- ciful law of the Jewish theocracy , he is not allowed to escape into the ...
... imprisonment , Mrs. Davis told a sympathetic correspondent that her husband " is the scape goat for the putative sins of the Confederacy , but unlike the mer- ciful law of the Jewish theocracy , he is not allowed to escape into the ...
Page xxxiv
... imprisonment had taken its toll . Yet Davis was never as sick as his wife or his close friends made him appear . In November 1867 he met Robert E. Lee for the first time since the end of the war . The Confederate general wrote his wife ...
... imprisonment had taken its toll . Yet Davis was never as sick as his wife or his close friends made him appear . In November 1867 he met Robert E. Lee for the first time since the end of the war . The Confederate general wrote his wife ...
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... imprisonment , hoping to correct the many false stories she believed had been circulated by her old nemesis , General Miles , who had recently published his own account of Davis's imprisonment . She criticized unnamed persons who ...
... imprisonment , hoping to correct the many false stories she believed had been circulated by her old nemesis , General Miles , who had recently published his own account of Davis's imprisonment . She criticized unnamed persons who ...
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