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Lynda Lasswell Crist, Editor
Mary Seaton Dix, Coeditor
Introduction by Frank E. VandiverVolume 7 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis offers a unique view of 1861, the first year of the Confederacy, Davis' presidency, and the Civil War.On January 21 Davis made his affecting farewell speech before a hushed Senate, then left for Mississippi. His uncertainty over a military or political course vanished when he received news of his unanimous election as president of the Confederate States of America. Inaugurated at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 18, Davis quickly set to work to forge a government, in a race with events to select a cabinet, establish departments, and plan for the common defense.Hopes for a peaceful separation from the North ended with the firing on Fort Sumter; subsequent documents reveal a president absorbed by the problems of waging a war that soon stretched from the Atlantic Coast to the Gulf of Mexico. Victory at Manassas produced euphoria among southerners but plunged the president into the first of several unfortunate controversies with his generals, this one over the failure to pursue the enemy and capitalize on success.Throughout 1861 the Confederate commissioners in Europe reported to Davis on their expectations of recognition, convinced that the demand for cotton would induce Great Britain and France to break the North's blockade of southern ports and help supply arms for the defense of the fledgling nation.Volume 7 provides a rare opportunity to assess anew Davis' strengths and weaknesses as executive, to reexamine his relationship with generals, governors, congressmen, cabinet officers, the press, and the public. Davis ended the year as he begun, aware of the difficulties of the course the South had adopted and confident that its cause would ultimately triumph. Containing illustrations, maps, and more than 2, 500 documents drawn from numerous printed sources and more than seventy repositories and private collections, Volume 7 covers a year of paramount importance in our country's history.
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INDEX
Abbot, Henry L., 91
Abingdon Democrat, 352
Abingdon Virginian, 278
abolitionism: Davis on, 42, 44-45
Great Britain and, 75, 110, 375
mentioned, 107, 141
A. B. Thompson (U. S.), 73
Adairsville, Ga.: Davis speaks at, xl
Adams, Charles Francis (sketch, 377), 375, 449
Adams, Henry A. (sketch, 97), 95, 97, 98
Adams, John: Davis praises, 8
Adams, John Quincy (sketch, 2:397), 377
Adams, Quintus Sertorius, 143, 156, 285
Adams, Spencer: Ls from, 143, 155-56, 285
Adams, William Wirt: appointment, 56, 63-64
Ls from, 63-64, 98
Adams Express Co., 51, 455-56
Addison, Charles G., 443
Addison, Edmund B., 443
Adjutant and Inspector General’s Office: criticized, 202, 436
Davis on, 247
estimate, 169
mentioned, 355, 360. See also Cooper, Samuel
Africa (British), 451, 452
Aiken, Frederick A.: L from, 91
Alabama: Davis addresses convention, 68
defenses, 252, 370-71
delegation visits Davis, xl
disaffection in, 164
munitions needed, 221, 371, 438
railroads, 354, 430, 436, 439, 442
saltpeter, 362
secession, 13, 166
slave insurrection feared, 148, 175
L from congressmen, 313
mentioned, 336, 381
Alabama, Department of, 72
Alabama, University of, 228, 378, 457
Alabama & Florida Railroad, 144, 436
Alabama Military Institute, 194
Alabama troops: Border Rangers, 197
2d Infantry, 284
4th Infantry, 166
8th Infantry, 166, 220
10th Infantry, 232
11th Infantry, 166
20th Infantry, 166
Jeff Davis Artillery, 166
command of, 313, 341
at Manassas, 249
at Pensacola, 97, 171
requested for Tenn., 191, 343
in Va., 182, 197, 208, 220
volunteers, 164-65, 175, 201, 210, 220
Alcorn, James L.: appointment, 107, 277
L from, 107
Alexander, —, 84
Alexander, Edward P.: Ls from, 355, 356
mentioned, 365
Alexander II, 102
Alexandria, Va.: Davis on recapture, 199, 263
U. S. defenses, 197, 239, 407, 426
mentioned, 179, 321, 326, 392
Alexandria, Loudoun & Hampshire Railroad, 208, 390
Alexandria Sentinel, 159
Algiers, La., 332
Allatoona, Ga., Battle of, 424
Allen, John J., 152
Allen, William, 115
Alonzo Child (CSA), 178
Alvord, A. B.:Lfrom, 260
American Revolution: Davis on, 9
mentioned, 184, 245
American State Papers: Davis orders, 80
Ames, James T., 67
Ampudia, Pedro (sketch, 3:23), 87
Anaconda plan, 135
Anacostia River, 133
Anderson, A.: L from, 388
Anderson, Ben: L from, 186
Anderson, Edward (ident., 42), 261, 263, 266
Anderson, Edward C: Davis meets with, xlii
L from, 103
Anderson, Edward H.: L to, 266
Anderson, Ellen Mary Davis (niece) (sketch, 1:282): L from, 263
mentioned, 41
Anderson, Flora L., 42
Anderson, Joseph R.: L from, 351
mentioned, 433
Anderson, Larz, 43
Anderson, Richard H., 357
Anderson, Robert (sketch, 1:252): Davis on, 8, 101, 102
Fort Sumter, 7, 11, 12, 24, 99-100, 103
politics of, 43
Anderson, Robert N.: L from, 178
Anderson, Robert P. (sketch, 4:230): L to, 455-56
Anderson, Samuel R. (sketch, 3:38): appointment, 240, 241, 245
L to, 196
Ls from, 104, 191, 211, 212, 218
mentioned, 411
Anderson, Samuel S., 107
Anderson, Thomas S. (sketch, 42), 41
Anderson, William: L from, 9-10
Andrews, George T. (ident., 26): Davis recommends, 15, 16
mentioned, 23
Andrews, R. Snowden, 227
Annandale, Va., 338
Annapolis, Md., 133, 150, 437
Antietam, Md., Battle of, 213
Apalachicola, Fla., 349, 382-83
Appomattox Court House, Va., 312
Aquia Creek, Va., 180, 322, 326
Aquia District: Davis on, 364
Aransas, Texas, 198
Archer, John: L from, 38
Arizona: conditions, 188
expeditions in, 218, 439
support for CSA, 218
Arkansas: CSA jurisdiction, 330
Davis’ land in, 425
defenses, 200, 318
invasion of, 179-80, 219, 223
military board, xxxix, 179-80, 200, 211
Miss, troops sent to, 276
munitions needed, 180, 200, 211
operations, 290, 441
relations with CSA, 51, 136, 253, 308
repudiation 112-secession 50 52 101 144-support for CSA’ 79 101 104 211-telegraph construction 431-unionism 81 101 432-L from military board, 179-80
Arkansas, District of (U. S.), 403
Arkansas troops: 1st Cavalry Battalion, 447
2d Infantry, 447
3 d Infantry, 270
13th Infantry, 402
arms, 224
command of, 180, 200, 211
militia, 144, 319
in Mo., 208, 308
regiments organized, 200, 442
in Va., 346
volunteers, 67, 308
Arlington Heights, Va.: defenses, 131, 239, 365, 407
recapture proposed, 197, 199, 430
Armstrong, Francis C, 307
Armstrong, Francis W., 307
army: acts concerning, 68, 156, 165-66, 247, 287-88
alcohol use, 83, 252, 313, 334, 357, 366, 436
blacks as laborers, 243, 252-53, 269, 278, 355, 358
bounties, 230, 444
cadets, 133, 432, 448
cavalry increase, 274, 280
chaplains, 136, 142
clothing, 145, 201, 202, 244, 250, 272, 279, 329, 348-49, 351, 363, 444
colportage, 211
conditions, 96, 281-82, 311, 329, 358-59, 404, 430-31, 453
conscription urged, 231, 237, 287
cooks, 285, 302
cooperation with navy, 361, 432
court of inquiry, 387
criticized, 382, 431
Department No. 1, 332, No. 2, 330
desertion, 166
discharges, 281, 285, 309, 397, 440
female volunteers, 121, 142, 143
food supply, 270, 274, 280, 295, 296-302, 304-305, 320, 323, 351, 372, 404, 407
foreign volunteers, 81, 84, 98, 179, 195, 210, 280
furloughs, 270, 307308, 440
general officers, 142, 305, (Davis), 373
health, 207, 213, 214, 230, 274, 280, 281-82, 286,”297, 302, 305 309 312 316 320 323, 338, 358, 359, 365
horses for volunteers, 219
Indian troops, 81, 218, 230, 267, 436
instruction, 121, 271, 272, 288, 313
intelligence operations, 212
investigative boards, 274
laundresses, 432
medical staff, 287-88
military academy, 133, 142
military treatises recommended, 172-minors 133 144 443-morale, 229, 243, 358-59, 368, 381
musicians, 432-nonslaveholders in 165
nurses, 285
officers criticized, 224, 320, 444, 453, (Davis), 295, needed, 237, 350
officers’ appointments, 70, 98, 224, 274, 279, 303-304, 347-49, 351, 410, 432, (Davis), 247, 432, 433-34, election, 272, 274, 387, (Davis), 431, promotions, 432, (Davis), 367, rank and pay, 367, 432, transfer to CSA, 186, 193
organization, 48, 60, 84, 202, 231, 286, 307, 367, 381, 383, (Davis), 272, 274, 326, 353, 355, 358-59, 364-65, 443, (J. E. Johnston), 274, 289, 305, 321, (G. W. Smith), 355, 357, by state, 313, 357, 360, (P. G. T. Beauregard), 338, 357, 368-69, (Davis), 355
pay, 169, 269, 382, 436, department recommended, 136
pony express, 244, 269
praised, 278, 303, 442, (Davis), 259, 260, 262, 263
railroads and, 319
tank of generals, 136, 254, 314, 335-37, 340, of militia officers, 355
recruiting, 51, 60, 144, 352, 444
reenlistments, 347-48
religious needs, 211, 277, 351, 361
sappers and miners, 166
signal system, 355
spies in, 371
staff officers, 355
state troops transferred to, 70, 73, 206, 224, 2...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction
- Acknowledgments
- Editorial Staff
- Board of Directors
- Editorial Method
- Symbols and Abbreviations
- Repository Symbols
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Chronology 1861
- The Papers of Jefferson Davis
- Addenda, 1847-56
- Sources
- Index