"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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... letter writers for the newspapers have no access to this fort , and that they either fabricate their reports or get them from soldiers , or , perhaps , officers , who furnish them for their own amusement , as I throw crumbs into the ...
... letter writers for the newspapers have no access to this fort , and that they either fabricate their reports or get them from soldiers , or , perhaps , officers , who furnish them for their own amusement , as I throw crumbs into the ...
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... letter from my husband comes freighted with good wishes for you , and thanks for all your kindness to him in his ... letter of personal narrative , but that letter he has not received . When he was taken from me on the ship , the provost ...
... letter from my husband comes freighted with good wishes for you , and thanks for all your kindness to him in his ... letter of personal narrative , but that letter he has not received . When he was taken from me on the ship , the provost ...
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... letter and the assurance of his “ improved health . ” Please do me the favor to tender to him my deepest sympathy and most affectionate remem- brance . Again begging your kind offices for your prisoners and thanking you for your letter ...
... letter and the assurance of his “ improved health . ” Please do me the favor to tender to him my deepest sympathy and most affectionate remem- brance . Again begging your kind offices for your prisoners and thanking you for your letter ...
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