27. Brown to Alexander H. Stephens, Milledgeville, GA, Oct. 12, 1864, in Toombs, Stephens, and Cobb, Correspondence, 653-54.
28. Toombs to Alexander H. Stephens, Washington, GA, Sept. 23, 1864, in Toombs, Stephens, and Cobb, Correspondence, 652-53.
29. Davis to Alexander H. Stephens, Richmond, VA, Nov. 21, 1864, in Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 409.
18. Peace Proposals
1. Cobb to James A. Seddon, Richmond, VA, Jan. 8, 1865, U.S. War Dept., War of the Rebellion, 4: III, 1009.
2. Sherman, Home Letters, 324-27.
3. Magrath to William J. Hardee, Columbia, SC, Jan. 11, 1865, Magrath Papers.
4. Lee to William Porcher Miles, Headquarters, Army of Northern Virginia, Jan. 19, 1865, Miles Papers, University of North Carolina.
5. Buell, “The Cannoneer,” 328-33.
6. Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 144ff.
7. Ibid., 153-54.
8. Clark as quoted in ibid., 215-17.
9. Oldham as quoted in Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 257-59.
10. Lee, Wartime Papers, 329-30.
11. Wigfall as quoted in Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 281-83.
12. Rhett to William Porcher Miles, Charleston, SC, Feb. 3, 1865, Miles Papers, University of North Carolina.
13. Davis to the Congress, Richmond, VA, Feb. 6, 1865, in Richardson, ed., Compilation of Messages, 1: 519; Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 465-66.
14. Davis to Benjamin H. Hill, Richmond, VA, Feb. 6, 1865, in Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 465.
15. Davis as quoted in Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 415; Davis as quoted in Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 58th Cong., 2d sess., Doc. 234, 4: 705.
16. Jones, Rebel War Clerk’s Diary, 2: 418.
17. Mills as quoted in George D. Harmon, ed., “Letters of Luther Rice Mills: A Confederate Soldier,” North Carolina Historical Review 4: (July 1927): 303; Gorgas, Journals of Josiah Gorgas, 153-54.
18. Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 311-14.
19. Campbell to John C. Breckinridge, Richmond, VA, Mar. 6, 1865, Campbell Papers.
20. Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 58th Cong., 2d sess., Doc. 234, 4: 550-.
21. Lee to Alexander H. Stephens and 17 senators, Headquarters, Armies of the Confederate States, Feb. 15, 1865, Wigfall Papers, Library of Congress. (Curiously, Lee spelled Stephens’s name “Stevens.”)
22. Davis to the Congress, Richmond, VA, Feb. 18, 1865, in Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 491-503.
23. Lee to G. T. Beauregard, Headquarters, Feb. 22, 1865, Lee Papers, Museum of the Confederacy.
24. Lincoln, Collected Works, 8: 332-33.
25. Wigfall as quoted in Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 235-38.
26. Davis as quoted in Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 58th Cong., 2d sess., Doc. 234, 4: 705-.
27. Southern Historical Society Papers, 52: 491-94.
28. Davis as quoted in Hattaway and Beringer, Jefferson Davis, 389.
29. Davis as quoted in Cooper, Jefferson Davis, 523.
30. Davis as quoted in William C. Davis, Jefferson Davis, 605.
31. Davis to the Confederacy, Danville, VA, Apr. 4, 1865, in Richardson, ed., Compilation of Messages, 1: 568-70; Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 529-31.
32. Harrison, Recollections Grave and Gay, 211.
33. Davis as quoted in Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 58th Cong., 2d sess., Doc. 234, 4: 703-7.
34. Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 58th Cong., 2d sess., Doc. 234, 4: 726-31.
35. Nichols, Story of the Great March, 160-66.
36. Davis, Jefferson Davis, 601.
37. Ibid., 602.
38. Davis to Varina Davis, Danville, VA, Apr. 6, 1865, in Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 533-34.
39. Davis to Jefferson Davis, n.p., Apr. 7, 1865, in Davis, Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist, 6: 537-39.
40. John Sergeant Wise, End of an Era, 434; Lincoln, Collected Works, 8: 392.
41. Chamberlain, Passing of the Armies, 242; Horace Porter, “The Surrender at Appomattox Court House,” in Battles and Leaders, eds. Johnson and Buel, 4: 737.
42. Grant as quoted in Johnson and Buel, eds., Battles and Leaders, 4: 743; Lee, General Order No. 9, Appomattox Court House, VA, Apr. 9, 1865, Wartime Papers, 934-35; Edmondston, “Journal of a Secesh Lady,” 694-95.
43. Jones, Lantern Slides.
44. Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles, 286-87.
45. Ruffin, Diary of Edmund Ruffin, 3: 949.
19. Epilogue: Despair
1. Worsham, One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry, 183.
2. Ibid.
3. As quoted in ibid., 184.
4. Worsham, One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry, 188.
5. Cobb to William H. Seward, Athens, GA, Jul. 18, 1865, in Toombs, Stephens, and Cobb, Correspondence, 663-65.
6. Davis corrections on typescript biography, n.p., Nov. 18, 1870, Harrison Family Papers.
7. Hattaway and Beringer, Jefferson Davis, 24.
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