"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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... suffer , but that his suffering was recognized as atonement for the sins of his fellow Southerners . Just a few months after her husband's imprisonment , Mrs. Davis told a sympathetic correspondent that her husband " is the scape goat ...
... suffer , but that his suffering was recognized as atonement for the sins of his fellow Southerners . Just a few months after her husband's imprisonment , Mrs. Davis told a sympathetic correspondent that her husband " is the scape goat ...
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... suffering he had experienced at Fort Monroe was worse than that borne by Napoleon on St. Helena . Mrs. Davis was more sentimental about Davis's imprisonment than any other aspect of his life . To contrast Davis's noble character with ...
... suffering he had experienced at Fort Monroe was worse than that borne by Napoleon on St. Helena . Mrs. Davis was more sentimental about Davis's imprisonment than any other aspect of his life . To contrast Davis's noble character with ...
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... suffering man before you ? I know you have been kind , for the only concordance between any of the numberless harrowing statements which daily agonize me , is that you are always represented as kind to him — as ministering to his ...
... suffering man before you ? I know you have been kind , for the only concordance between any of the numberless harrowing statements which daily agonize me , is that you are always represented as kind to him — as ministering to his ...
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