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Fiction Distorting Fact: The Prison Life

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Fiction Distorting Fact: The Prison Life
Edward K. Eckert
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Prison life of Jefferson Davis: Embracing details and incidents in his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest

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Prison life of Jefferson Davis: Embracing details and incidents in his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations on topics of great public interest
John Joseph Craven
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Prison Life of Jefferson Davis Embracing Details and Incidents in his Captivity Particulars Concerning His Health and Habits...

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Prison Life of Jefferson Davis Embracing Details and Incidents in his Captivity Particulars Concerning His Health and Habits...
Bvt. Lieut.-Col. John J., M.D. Craven
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Unfair Treatment for An Innocent Man.

The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis
John Joseph Craven
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THE PRISON LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS is John Craven?s intimate first person account of Jefferson Davis? prison life after the end of the Civil War. Davis was accused of treason and other high crimes and taken to Fort Monroe, Virginia and placed in solitary confinement. Craven, a northerner served as Davis?s personal physician for seven months during his incarceration. He describes the proud and noble Southerner and first President of the Confederate States of America during a time of turmoil as few others could.

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The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis is John Craven?s absorbing first-person account of Confederate President, Jefferson Davis? imprisonment after the Civil War. Davis, accused of treason, the plot to assassinate President Lincoln, and the horrors of Andersonville Prison, spent two years in prison after General Robert E. Lee surrendered to the North to General Ulysses S. Grant. Craven served as personal physician to President Davis for seven months of his imprisonment and has recorded his experiences in this captivating story.

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Unfair Treatment for An Innocent Man........2007-01-28

In May, 1861, the Confederate government moved to Richmond, Virginia, where Davis remaind four years until the end of the War. Varina was only 35 years old when she became First Lady of the South, a headstrong (temperamental, vain, sarcastic, vincictive, proud, meddlesome, warm-hearted, generous) Southern woman -- I can identify with that. With the surrender of Robert E. Lee on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox, Davis was on the move from Virginia through North Carolina and was captured in Georgia on May 10, almost a month after Lincoln's assassination. He was nowhere near the Washington, D.C. conspiracy (far away and would never have been involved). Perjurer Sanford Conover who linked him to the assassination was jailed for his false accusation, that Davis was involved in the assassination plot. He was on his way to Texas to recoup the Confederate forces. For him, the War was not over.He did all he could to hold the Union together as Senator during President James Buchanan's tenure. At the 1860 Democratic convention, Jefferson Davis' name was proposed as it was thought he was the only man who could have defeated Lincoln and avoided a war. Pm Christmas Eve, 1860, South Carolina seceded from the Union Jan. 9, 1861 and Mississippi followed. Jeff Davis left Washington, D.C. on Jan. 21 "I wish you well, though we must part. I carry with me no hostile remembrance; bid you a final adieu."

There is a monument out in nowhere (near Irwinville, Georgia) where Jeff Davis and his family were captured. There is a marker in Minor Hill, Tennesssee, where young Sam Davis was captured , south of Pulask, where he was hanged. Chief Justice Salmon P.Chase advised against trial for treason. Davis was indicted for treason anyway. Horace Greely, editor of 'New York Tribune,' came to his defence. Since Davis had never committed a crime against his country or any person, he would never ask for a pardon. Secession is not a rebellion. His general may have given up, but he was not ready to. He meant to pursue the war from Texas.

He was imprisoned in Fort Monroe, Virginia, surrounded by a moat 60 ft. wide; walls 30 ft. high and 90 ft. thick. There was no way to escape/ Cruel and unusual treatment included irons around his ankles (indignity); cruel and inhuman treatment (bed bugs and inadequate diet) caused his health to decline. He was finally freed on a write of "habeas corpus" with the help of Horace Greely of New York, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and other Northerners who posted bond of $100,000. President Johnson granted "amnesty" and charges were dropped Feb. 15, 1869 (4 years late).

A victorious trial would have made the North look bad as it would have proved that the War was not justified. He spent an amount of time being persecuted by his country which he had served so well, as the whole of the Civil War. He'd been appointed Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce in 1853. His achievements in this position have yet to be surpassed. He was called "War Minister of this great Republic" by the English. His many reforms are listed from 1853-1857. The new dome of the U. S. Capitol building was under his supervision. He had tried to get the South to industrialize for a better economy. He came upwith subsidies in times of crop failures for farmers (I thought that was a fairlynew thing: to give Southern farmers money not to plant crops).

In 1873, he retired from Carolina Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee, to live at "Beavoir" on the Gulf of Mexico between New Orleans and Mobile, Alabama. At the age of 78, a monument to his life was installed by the state, an oblisk (35 ft. high only surpassed by the Washington Monument in D.C.). In a speeech in 1888, he wished for a "reunited country." Om 1889, he revisited the old homeplace and failed to reach his safe haven, Beauvoir, and died on December 6 in New Orleans with Varina at this side after three weeks fatal illness. He was revered and honored by citizens all over America, not just the South, as he was a man of the people, an educated man.

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Prison Life of Jefferson Davis
MD John L. Craven
Manufacturer: Beauvior Jefferson Davis Shrine
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The Prison Life of Jefferson Davis
John J. Craven
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Prison life of Jefferson Davis. Embracing details and incidents in his captivity, particulars concerning his health and habits, together with many conversations ... interest. By Bvt. Lieut.Col. John J. Craven.
Michigan Historical Reprint Series
Manufacturer: Scholarly Publishing Office, University of Michigan Library
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1425540309
Release Date: 2005-12-21

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program.

Prison Life of Jefferson Davis : Embracing Details and Incidents in His Captivity, with Conversations on Topics of Public Interest

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Prison Life of Jefferson Davis : Embracing Details and Incidents in His Captivity, with Conversations on Topics of Public Interest
John J. Craven
Manufacturer: Sampson Low, Son, and Marston.
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Conversations between Jefferson Davis and the prison doctor, Chief Medical Officer Lt. Col. John Craven. 1866 Sampson Low edition "published simultaneously in London and New York".

Extracts from my diary, and from my experiences while boarding with Jefferson Davis, in three of his notorious hotels, in richmond, va., tuscaloosa, Ala., ... andd sailors historical society. 6th ser.--)

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Extracts from my diary, and from my experiences while boarding with Jefferson Davis, in three of his notorious hotels, in richmond, va., tuscaloosa, Ala., ... andd sailors historical society. 6th ser.--)
William J Crossley
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"Fiction Distorting Fact" The Prison Life Annotated by Jefferson Davis

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"Fiction Distorting Fact" The Prison Life Annotated by Jefferson Davis
Edward K. Eckert
Manufacturer: Mercer U.P.
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