Download or read book The Dixon Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Tradition Classic Reprint written by Frank Everett Stevens and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Dixon Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Tradition But if Davis had been given a furlough, how could he enjoy it and fight through the war at the same time, statement or no statement and speech or no speech, to the contrary? Another almost remarkable, and at the same time altogether pleasant, explanation came to the rescue through the great kindness of George Wilson, of Lexington, Missouri, when we bumped into each other as we did during my long years of exploration. George Wilson laid the story before me: His father, Lieu tenant George Wilson, was stationed at Fort Crawford Prairie du Chien - in 1832, and, with the troops of Zachary Taylor and General Atkinson, came to Dixon. He was the chum and confidant of Davis and delivered letters between Davis and Miss Taylor when an elopement was contemplated. Davis had started down the Mississippi for Kentucky on his furlough, but when at or near Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, he met Atkinson and his troops preparing for their departure up-stream on April 8th, once more to drive back Black Hawkwho was preparing for another raid into Illinois, he abandoned his furlough and returned to Fort Armstrong with Atkinson. With this positive explanation, I should have felt justified in handing our debunking friend, who was trying to steal old Dixon's glory, a piece of my mind. Fortunately I kept still, because Wilson was mistaken. With the further information I secured from Washington, I learned that Davis left Fort Crawford March 26, 1832, on his sixty-day furlough and went straight to Mississippi, where he passed the sixty - day period. Once more I found myself at sea, struggling not only with this later information but with the almost hope less odds added that on May 26, the day of the expiration of his furlough, Davis applied for the four months additional period allowed in his original furlough if desired. Furthermore I learned that this application for the additional four months had been allowed on July 21, just a few days before the termi nation of the war. I have a photostatic copy of Davis application and here it is. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Dixon Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis Tradition written by Frank Everett Stevens and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book DIXON ABRAHAM LINCOLN JEFFERSON DAVIS TRADITION written by FRANK EVERETT. STEVENS and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Presidents Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis written by C. E. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln Jefferson Davis written by Thomas Dixon and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-07 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Dixon, author of The Clansman (made into D.W. Griffith's famous Birth of a Nation film), wrote parallel pieces of Abraham Lincoln's life, and a longer parallel piece of the career of Jefferson Davis. Neither one of these men ran for office with the intention of being war presidents, yet they both were embroiled in sometimes strikingly similar situations. Both brought integrity to their unexpected callings, and the stories show the growth into office that both experienced. These are the stories behind the story, and Dixon appears to be the right person to tell it.
Download or read book Jefferson Davis the President of the Confederate States and Abraham Lincoln the President of the United States 1861 1865 Classic Reprint written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States, and Abraham Lincoln, the President of the United States, 1861-1865 The time has come when men may speak freely, kindly, and truly of the past. The War Between the States, with its sacrifices, has ceased, and peace between the sections with its ennobling, refining and uplifting influences, has come to abide forever. They who would stay its marches and delay its reign are the enemies of the Nation's happiness. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Confederates written by Lincoln Financial Foundation and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and Confederates: Jefferson Davis; Excerpts From Newspapers and Other Sources The small map attached exhibits the lines of equal temper atures properly projected. I have had prepared an other map exhibiting the distribution of woodland within the limits of our territory; but the act of congress orbidding illustrations of the proper character obli ge es me to with hold the discussion of this part of the general subject. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Two Presidents written by Charles Edwin Gilbert and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Presidents: Abraham Lincoln, Jefferson Davis: Origin, Cause and Conduct of the War Between the States; The Truth of History Belongs to Posterity In 1775, this feeling between the two sections was recognized by General Washington, when, at Boston, he issued a stern order for the summary punishment of any man guilty of arousing that sectional animosity. In 1776, John Jay, as Secretary of Foreign Affairs, recommended to Congress in the treaty with Spain there should be no_ American shipping on the Mississippi River below the mouth of the Yazoo, which brought forth strong protests from Virginia and other Southern States. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Victim written by Thomas Jr. Dixon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Victim" (A Romance of the Real Jefferson Davis) by Thomas Jr. Dixon. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Abraham Lincoln and Confederates written by Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln and Confederates: Jefferson Davis (2) No living man at the time held so gloriously that combined record of conspicuous service on the battlefield and in statesmanship. Nowhere is Mr. Strode neutral. Anybody who opposed Davis had to be wrong. For example, Henry Foote the only foe of Davis in Mississippi politics whom Mr. Strode even deigns to men tion was nothing but a shrill-tongued, noisy, unscrupulous little opportunist. Stephen A. Douglas whom Davis fought valiantly in the Senate from 1857 to 1860 - was a ruthless and callous schemer, ruled by a consuming desire to be President. Not in precise words, but in substantive effect, Mr. Strode endorses Davis' own estimate of Douglas as a little grog-drinking, electioneering Demagogue. Only once - in relating the story of the kansas-nebraska Act - does Mr. Strode suggest that Davis' conduct may have deserved disapproval. Even then he says guardedly: Davis may have been deceived and he may have acted unwisely in persuading Franklin Pierce to approve the measure. In his introduction and in his notes on sources, Mr. Strode ascribes much im portance to the wealth of new material that he has found. Yet he never describes the exact nature or scope - of this new material. Rather, he says simply that it includes five boxes of intimate family papers in the possession of Jefferson hayes-davis, a banker in Colorado Springs, and that he has used numerous Davis letters and mementoes in the hands of other Davis kinsmen (whom he names). He has dispensed with footnotes on the ground that they interrupt the rhythm of reading. The book is marred by numerous small errors of fact, but they are errors of a kind that the specialist in history, rather than the general reader, will object to. Its greatest weakness lies in its treatment of politics. Because Davis' chief importance in the years before 1861 lay in the field of politics, this weakness is fundamental. Mr. Strode tells us almost nothing about the political alignments in Mississippi that elected Davis once to the House of Representatives (in 1845) and twice to the Senate (in 1848 and Who were Davis' supporters and political friends in Mississippi? How did he gain their support? Why did they send him to Washington, and what did they expect of him there? Who opposed him, and on what grounds? Mr. Strode does not say. For example, he does not even give the name or the political party of the man whom Davis defeated for Congress in 1845; nor does he mention a single issue or assertion made in that campaign. Similarly, his account of national politics in the l84o's and 18so's is often 'sketchy and superficial, or oversimplified. Although he quotes liberally from some of Davis' best known speeches in the Senate, he has not bothered to explain what was actually going on in the Senate while Davis was a member. What were the issues and measures in which Davis was most deeply interested? What did he do to forward them? What, besides the anti-slavery agitation, did he fight? What were his relationships with his fellow senators? How much influence did he have in the Senate? Mr. Strode gives us but little light on these questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Jefferson Davis and His Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln President of the United States written by Jefferson Davis and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-13 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Jefferson Davis, and His Complicity in the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States: And Where the Traitor Shall Be Tried for Treason "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." These words were referred to in emphatic terms by Mr. Lincoln, then President elect, on Washington's birthday, the 22d of February, 1861, when hoisting the American flag high over Independence Hall. "But," said he, "if this country cannot be saved upon that principle it will be truly awful. But if this country cannot be saved without giving up this principle, I Was about to say, would rather be assassinated on this spot than surrender it" And for sustaining and carrying out this noble and sublime principle he was assassinated in the capital of his native land b- an organized conspiracy of ruffians and traitors hired by Jefferson Davis and his associates in treason and murder. To every man of common sense the evidence is overwhelming, and the crime is in keeping with the cold, cruel, and vindictive temper of the arch rebel who was a careful student of Machiavelli and of the policy of his hero, Caesar Borgia. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Victim written by Thomas Dixon and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Presidents written by E. C. Gilbert and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a brief overview of the lives and careers of the two men that led the opposing sides in the War Between the States: Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. The author, the son of a Confederate soldier, exposes Lincoln's personal deficiencies of character, his vacillating views on secession, his duplicity in calling for peace while secretly setting the stage for war, and his many violations of his oath and duty to uphold the Constitution. The unsullied integrity and statesmanship of Jefferson Davis is then presented in sharp contrast, along with an answer to the common charge of treason brought against the Southern people.
Download or read book The Constitutions of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis written by Russell Hoover Quynn and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Two Great Southerners written by A. C. Whitehead and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-21 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Two Great Southerners: Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee The primary aim of this book is to acquaint the children of the South with the goodness and grandeur of the lives of two of her noblest sons. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Jefferson Davis The President of the Confederate States and Abraham Lincoln the President of the United States 1861 1865 written by Mildred Lewis Rutherford and published by . This book was released on 2017-11-10 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. Our readers see the books the same way that their first readers did decades or a hundred or more years ago. Books from that period are often spoiled by imperfections that did not exist in the original. Imperfections could be in the form of blurred text, photographs, or missing pages. It is highly unlikely that this would occur with one of our books. Our extensive quality control ensures that the readers of Trieste Publishing's books will be delighted with their purchase. Our staff has thoroughly reviewed every page of all the books in the collection, repairing, or if necessary, rejecting titles that are not of the highest quality. This process ensures that the reader of one of Trieste Publishing's titles receives a volume that faithfully reproduces the original, and to the maximum degree possible, gives them the experience of owning the original work.We pride ourselves on not only creating a pathway to an extensive reservoir of books of the finest quality, but also providing value to every one of our readers. Generally, Trieste books are purchased singly - on demand, however they may also be purchased in bulk. Readers interested in bulk purchases are invited to contact us directly to enquire about our tailored bulk rates.
Download or read book Jefferson Davis The Essential Writings written by Jefferson Davis and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part from the authoritative Papers of Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches published by the Louisiana State University Press, and includes thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson Davis. As William J. Cooper, Jr., writes in his Introduction, “Davis’s notability does not come solely from his crucial role in the Civil War. Born on the Kentucky frontier in the first decade of the nineteenth century, he witnessed and participated in the epochal transformation of the United States from a fledgling country to a strong nation spanning the continent. In his earliest years his father moved farther south and west to Mississippi. As a young army officer just out of West Point, he served on the northwestern and southwestern frontiers in an army whose chief mission was to protect settlers surging westward. Then, in 1846 and 1847, as colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment, he fought in the Mexican War, which resulted in 1848 in the Mexican Cession, a massive addition to the United States of some 500,000 square miles, including California and the modern Southwest. As secretary of war and U.S. senator in the 1850s, he advocated government support for the building of a transcontinental railroad that he believed essential to bind the nation from ocean to ocean.”
