THE RISE AND FALL OF THE CONFEDERATE GOVERNMENT. BY JEFFERSON DAVIS. VOLUME I. NEW YORK: D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, 1, 8, AND 5 BOND STREET. 1881. THE NEW YORK 168575 ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1900. COPYRIGHT BY JEFFERSON DAVIS, 1881. ΤΟ THE WOMEN OF THE CONFEDERACY, WHOSE PIOUS MINISTRATIONS TO OUR WOUNDED SOLDIERS SOOTHED THE LAST HOURS OF THOSE WHO DIED FAR FROM THE OBJECTS OF THEIR TENDEREST LOVE; WHOSE DOMESTIC LABORS CONTRIBUTED MUCH TO SUPPLY THE WANTS OF OUR DEFENDERS IN THE FIELD; SHONE A GUIDING STAR UNDIMMED BY THE DARKEST CLOUDS OF WAR; SUSTAINED THEM UNDER ALL THE PRIVATIONS TO WHICH THEY WERE SUBJECTED; EXPRESSES THEIR ENDURING GRIEF, LOVE, AND REVERENCE FOR OUR SACRED DEAD; AND WHOSE PATRIOTISM WILL TEACH THEIR CHILDREN TO EMULATE THE DEEDS of our revolUTIONARY SIRES; These Pages are Dedicated BY THEIR COUNTRYMAN, JEFFERSON DAVIS. |