Author: Mary Elizabeth DavisPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 42
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Letters from Mary Elizabeth Davis
Author: Mary Elizabeth DavisLetters from Cadet Thomas B. Davis of V.M.I. to His Father John Davis and Sister Mary Elizabeth Davis Mentioning Cadet Life and His Desire to Enlist in the Confederate Army
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Category : Lynchburg (Va.)
Languages : en
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Also one deed of trust signed by Camillus Christain, John Davis, George Davis, and Ed D. Christain and four bank notes issued by the Planters Saving Bank, Lynchburg, Va. in 1862 and one ten cent United States bank note.
The Papers of Jefferson Davis
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807158658
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 864
Book Description
The five-year period from 1841 to 1846 saw the beginning of Jefferson Davis’ political career. In this, the second volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, the documents cover Davis’ unsuccessful race for the state legislature, his selection as a Democratic state elector, his marriage to Varina Howell, his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, and his departure therefrom to assume command of the First Mississippi Regiment in the Mexican War. In the congressional documents Davis emerges as a hardworking freshman representative who quickly won for himself the respect and esteem of his fellow congressmen. There were, however, notable exceptions. One such exception was Andrew Johnson, a tailor by trade, who strongly resented Davis’ remark on the floor of the House that a “blacksmith or tailor” could not be expected to achieve the same results in battle as a trained military man. In the somewhat bitter exchange that followed, some have professed to see the beginnings of the long-standing animosity between Johnson and Davis. The 255 documents in this volume (two appendixes contain undated and late-arriving items) provide a clear picture of Jefferson Davis, the man and the politician, and give an intimate view of Mississippi in the 1840s. Throughout the volume are rumblings of the then distant storm that was to break so disastrously over the nation in the 1860s.
Marriage on the Border
Author: Allison Dorothy FredettePublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813179173
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Not quite the Cotton Kingdom or the free labor North, the nineteenth-century border South was a land in between. Here, the era's clashing values—slavery and freedom, city and country, industry and agriculture—met and melded. In factories and plantations along the Ohio River, a unique regional identity emerged: one rooted in kinship, tolerance, and compromise. Border families articulated these hybrid values in both the legislative hall and the home. While many defended patriarchal households as an essential part of slaveholding culture, communities on the border pressed for increased mutuality between husbands and wives. Drawing on court records, personal correspondence, and prescriptive literature, Marriage on the Border: Love, Mutuality, and Divorce in the Upper South during the Civil War follows border southerners into their homes through blissful betrothal and turbulent divorce. Allison Dorothy Fredette examines how changing divorce laws in the border regions of Kentucky and West Virginia reveal surprisingly progressive marriages throughout the antebellum and postwar Upper South. Although many states feared that loosening marriage's gender hierarchy threatened slavery's racial hierarchy, border couples redefined traditionally permanent marriages as consensual contracts—complete with rules and escape clauses. Men and women on the border built marriages on mutual affection, and when that affection faded, filed for divorce at unprecedented rates. Highlighting the tenuous relationship between racial and gendered rhetoric throughout the nineteenth century, Marriage on the Border offers a fresh perspective on the institution of marriage and its impact on the social fabric of the United States.
Letters from A.J. Davis to His Daughter, Mary E. in Harrisburg, PA
Author: A. J. DavisPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
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Letters describing his trip to Sitka in 1885, comments on teaching, the school, life in Sitka, hunting, and the people; includes a letter from F.L. Moore, a Tlingit Indian, to Pres. Cleveland, 2/26/1893, recommending A.J. Davis for governor of Alaska.
Pneumatic Tube Mail Service
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Commission to Investigate the Value of Pneumatic-tube Mail ServicePublisher:
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Category : Pneumatic-tube transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Manuscripts of Davis Family of Lynchburg, Va., Including Letters of John T. Davis, His Wife, Margaret Davis and His Daughter, Mary E. Davis
Author: The Totalitarian Claim of the Gospels
Author: Dora WillsonPennington Pedigrees
Author: The Washington Law Reporter
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 876
Book Description
Includes decisions of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, 1902-1934, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, 1934-1959, and various other courts of the District of Columbia.