The Papers of Jefferson Davis

1871-1879

Jefferson Davis

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Year: 2012
• ISBN:
  9780807139080
• Topic: Storia
• Subtopic: Storia della guerra civile americana

Volume 13 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he becomes head of the Carolina Life Insurance Company of Memphis and attempts to gain a financial foothold for his newly reunited family. Having lost everything in the Civil War and spent two years immediately afterwards in federal prison, Davis faced a mounting array of financial woes, health problems, and family illnesses and tragedies in the 1870s. Despite setbacks during this decade, Davis also began a quest to rehabilitate his image and protect his historical legacy.
Although his position with the insurance company provided temporary financial stability, Davis resigned after the Panic of 1873 forced the sale of the company and its new owners canceled payments to Carolina policyholders. He left for England the following year in search of employment and to recuperate from ongoing illnesses. In 1876, Davis became president of the London-based Mississippi Valley Society and relocated to New Orleans to run the company.
Throughout the 1870s, Davis waged an expensive and seemingly endless legal battle to regain his prewar Mississippi plantation, Brierfield. He also began working on his memoirs at Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast estate of a family friend. Though disfranchised, Davis addressed the subject of politics with more frequency during this decade, criticizing the Reconstruction policies of the federal government while defending the South and the former Confederacy. The volume ends with Davis's inheritance of Beauvoir, which was his last home.
The editors have drawn from over one hundred manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources in compiling Volume 13.

INDEX

Abbeville, S.C.: Davis in (1865), 75, 47475, (Davis), 423, 467, 475-76

mentioned, 522

Abigail ellen (servant) (1859), 601

Abingdon, Va.: Davis in, 147

Acker, Walter: Davis and, 291

Acklen, William (ident., 18)

Acosta, Eleazer (sketch, 379): Davis and, 377

mentioned, 103

Acosta, Mary C. (sketch, 379): Davis and, 377

Adams, Catherine Y. (ident., 45), 43

Adams, John d.: Davis and, 4

Adams, John dunning (sketch, 45), 43

Adams, Salmon, 449

Adams, Sarah M. (sketch, 392), 388

Adams, William Wirt (sketch, 8:15): Davis and, xli, xlv, 342, 348

mentioned, 388, 392, (1863), 606, 607

Adams, Wirt, Jr., (ident., 392)

Adriatic, SS: Davis on, 219, 383, 384, 412, 414

African Americans. See blacks

Agnel, Hyacinth R., 14

Ahern, Mary (sketch, 12:25): Davises and, 123, 137, 140, 173, 184, 189, 248

investments (Davis), 396, 399, 400, 455

Alabama: conditions (1864), 608

Davis visits, 252, 255, 260

iron industry (Davis), 136

Alabama, CSS: claims, 5-6, 104, 118

Davis on, 123

mentioned, 517

Alabama, SS. See State of Alabama, SS

Alabama troops: 3d Infantry (Davis), 11

Albion Hotel, Baltimore, 173

Alexis, Grand duke (Alexei Alexandrovich), xxxv

Alfriend, Frank H.: Davis and, 22, 150, 329

Davis biography, 20, 21, 429, (Davis), 434

and J. E. Johnston, 217

L to, 20-21

Alleghany Springs, Va., 102

Allen,——(Mrs.), 472, 473

Allen, Charles B.: Davis and, 124

Allen, Hagar (ex-slave) (sketch, 2:332): Davis and, 247, 249

and Davis v. Bowmar, 324

mentioned (1857), 600, (1859), 601

Alonzo,——(Mr.), 601

Alston, Robert A. (sketch, 367): on Davis and Lincoln’s assassination, 366, 368

L from, 47

Alston, Waldeman, 367

Ambert, Joachim: L from (1869), 608

American Cyclopaedia: Davis article, 329, 372, (Davis), 346, 363, 543

American Revolution: Davis on, 25, 29, 63

Ames, Adelbert: Davis and, xxxix

and J. E. Davis’ estate, 41, 42, 47

mentioned, 143, 154

Ames, Oakes, 178

Ampudia, Pedro (sketch, 3:23), 271

Anchorage, The, 398

Anderson, Butler P., 463, 503

Anderson, Catherine H.: Davis and, 611

mentioned, 558

Anderson, Ellen Davis (niece) (sketch, 1:282), xliv, 94, 100, 105, 386

Anderson, George B. (ident., 211)

Anderson, George B., Jr. (ident., 211)

Anderson, Henrietta A. (sketch, 109): L to, 363-64

Anderson, James Patton (sketch, 108), Davis on, 364

mentioned, 107, 109

Anderson, Jane Davis (grandniece) (ident., 12:144), 105, 514, (1869), 609

Anderson, Joseph R., 250

Anderson, Robert Davis (grandnephew) (sketch, 5:134), 105

Anderson, T. C.: Davis and, 128

Anderson, Thomas C.: Davis on, 481

Anderson, William, 558

Andersonville, Ga.: CSA policy, 337

Davis and, 314, on, 344, 353

R. R. Stevenson book, 201, 226, 254, 353, 434

U.S. visitors (Davis), 357. See also prisoners of war

Anthony, Susan B., 67

Antietam, Md., Battle of, 255

Appletons’ (D. Appleton & Company): Davis on, 460

and Davis’ memoirs, 330, 352, 372, 438

and A. S. Johnston biography, 469

Rise and Fall contract, vii-viii, 375-76

Arkansas: Davis’ land in, 3, 5, 19, 23, 47, 76, 92, 98, 102, 112, 115, 124, 127, 128, 130, 135, 143, 168, 256, 261, 270, 529, 583, (1869) 609

Davis visits, 264

S. E. Dorsey’s land in, 560

land prices, 102

mining (Davis), 264, 300, 301

railroads, 127

Armstrong, David H., xli

Army of Northern Virginia: Davis speaks to veterans, 518

J. E. Johnston and (Davis), 426, 462

R. E. Lee and, 194, 252, 254

supplies (1865), 138-39, 171, 426

veterans, 438, 512

Army of Tennessee: command controversies (Davis), 91

Davis and veterans, 494

Davis visits (1864), 141, 161, 162

history of, 252, 253, 268

morale, 259, 522, 565, 570, 571-72

strength, 259

Tenn. campaign, 161, 539-40

mentioned, 171

Arnold,-(Judge and Mrs.), xlv

Arrington, Emma L. (ident., 18), 16, 43

Arrington, William T. (sketch, 18), 16

Ashland plantation: Davis and, 93. See also Keary, Helen Davis Astin, Mabel F. (ident., 292)

Atchison, David R. (sketch, 4:125): Davis on, 567

Atlanta, Ga.: Davis’ speech in, 28-33, 42, 46, 53

defenses (1864), 89

described, 34

Atlanta campaign: Davis and, 141, 161, 162, on, 259, 498, 522, 540

J. E. Johnston and, 530

mentioned, 570

Augusta, Ga.: Davis in (1864), 548; Davis’ speech in, 25-26, 35, 53

Austin, Tex.: Davis speaks in, 293

Ayers,——(Mrs. G. P.), 77

Ayres, Sarah A.: Davis and, 3

Ls to, 75, 234

“B. & C.” See Boyle & Chapman

Badger, George E. (sketch, 5:6) (1862), 604

Baker, Lafayette C., 245

Baker’s Creek, Miss., Battle of, 244

Balfour, Elizabeth G., 389

Balfour, John W. (sketch, 389), 387

Balfour, Joseph D., 389

Balfour, Louis Gartley (grandnephew-in-law) (ident., 184), 389

Balfour, Lucy Smith (grandniece) (sketch, 183), 181

Balfour, Mary H. (ident., 389), 387

Balfour, William L., 389

Balfour, William S.: Davis on, 390

Ballantyne, Robert: Davis and, 340

Ballard House Hotel, Richmond: Davis at, 150

Baltimore, Md.: Carolina Life, 63, 139, 173

Davis in, 51, 106, 107, 111, 138, 171, plans travel to, 94, 101, 102, 105, 137, 169, 171

V. H. Davis in, 35, 55

as possible residence (Davis), 83, 155, 173

railroad connections (Davis), 58

war record, 155

Banks, Arthur D. (sketch, 9:129), 213

“Banny.” See Davis, Jefferson

Baring, Thomas, 382

Baring Brothers, 380

Barksdale, Ethelbert (sketch, 4:224): Carolina Life agent, 69, 71

and J. E. Johnston, 220

on Davis, 549

Ls to, 488, 519

Ls from, 492, 496

mentioned, 67, 495

Barlow, Robert A. (sketch, 229), 228

Barnabò, Alessandro, 461

Barnes, Nicholas E. (sketch, 7:441), 262, 264

Barnes’ Hotel, Biloxi, Miss.: Davis at, xlvi, 251

Barnum’s Hotel, Baltimore: Davis at, 106, 108

V. H. Davis and, 54-55

Barnwell, Robert W. (sketch, 4:125): Davis and (1865), 202, 204, 218, 442, 444-45, 455, 467

on CSA surrender, 202

Baron, Laura B., 292

Baron, N. A., Jr., 292

Barr, Frank S., 488

Barr, Ida S. (sketch, 488): Davises and, 488

L to, cited, 488

mentioned, 487

Barr, William A. (ident., 488)

Barrett-Lennard, Anna H. (ident., 101)

Barrett-Lennard, Charles E. (ident., 101)

Bartlett, William H. C. (sketch, 1:78), 14

Batchelor, George, 578, 580

Bates, Lewis F.: on Davis, 368

Bateson, Charles E., xlv

Bateson, Mary Stamps (grandniece): Davis and, xlv

mentioned, 85, 117, 236, 301, 302, 525

Baton Rouge Arsenal, 591

Battle, Kemp P., 22

Bayard, James A. (1868), 608

Bayliss, Bronson, 201

Baylor, George W. (ident., 335)

Baylor, John R. (ident., 335)

Baylor, John W., 335

Baylor, Sophie E.: L from, cited, 335

Bayou Sara, La., Davis visits, xxxix, 255

Beale, Truxtun: Davis recommends (1849), 598

Bean, Jesse (sketch, 1:302): Davis and, 191, 399

Beauregard, Pierre G. T. (sketch, 6:249): Bragg and, 76, 77, 81

Charleston defenses, 511, (Davis), 541

Corinth (Davis), 81

criticized, 104, 470, 480, 522, 540, 542, 547, 553, 570, (Davis), 76

and CSA flag, 520

Davis and, 141, 426, 468, 548, 565, on, 194, 252, 527, 541, 548, 565

described, 194

drewry’s Bluff, 194, 570, (Davis), 527, 565, 571

health (1862), 81

W. P. Johnston and, 501, 503, 529

Manassas, 202, 468, 521, 528, 537, (Davis), 220, 361, 441, 478, 527

on Atlanta campaign, 522, Davis, 81, J. B. Hood, 453, Manassas, 479-80, surrender, 426, 544

Shiloh, 435, 438, 476, 501, 578, (Davis), 81, 252, 500, 501

Tenn. campaign, 162, (Davis), 522, 540, 548, 565

writes for Philadelphia Times, 435

Ls to, 464, 471, 478

Ls from, 468, 477, 479-80

mentioned (1863), 607

Beauvoir: Davis on, 251, 397, 404, 411, 412, 419, 434, 444, 463, 464, 484, 493, 531, 564, 572, purchases, 531, 537, 546, 557, visits, 251, 387, 395

Davis’ cottage, 396-98, 399, 404, 405, 523, room and board, 397, 423, 557

J. R. Davis and, 523, 524, 531, 533, 539

V. H. Davis and, vii, xlvi, 378, 414, 419, 468, 472, 476, 485, 493, 535

Davises’ accommodations, vii, 533

S. E. dors-ey’s bequests, 537-38, 553-54, 560, relatives reside at, 391, 401, 453, 487, 557, 559, 560

grounds, 251, 404, 411, 434, 485

as Hayeses’ residence (Davis), 564

inventory of property, 556

litigation, 391, 559-60

orange sales, 485

post office and railroad station, 399, 453, 487, 496, 522, 524

value, 559-60, (Davis), 557-58

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