. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . as colonel of the First MississippiVolunteers by the famous reentering angle at Buena Vista. As Senator from Mississippi andSecretary of War under President Pierce, he became the accepted leader of the Southern party intheir insistence on the doctrine of States rights. His unanimous election as President of the Con-federacy on February 8, 1861, by the Congress at Montgomery, Alabama, was unsought. Whenthe permanent government was established in 1862, he entered without opposition upon the sixyears term. When the stress of war turne
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . as colonel of the First MississippiVolunteers by the famous reentering angle at Buena Vista. As Senator from Mississippi andSecretary of War under President Pierce, he became the accepted leader of the Southern party intheir insistence on the doctrine of States rights. His unanimous election as President of the Con-federacy on February 8, 1861, by the Congress at Montgomery, Alabama, was unsought. Whenthe permanent government was established in 1862, he entered without opposition upon the sixyears term. When the stress of war turned his administration into a virtual dictatorship, he wieldedenormous powers with the utmost fidelity. His military training and experience had instilled him withsuch confidence in his military capacity that he maintained to the end a close control over all hisgenerals. His wife, who possessed all the charm of Southern womanhood, has left an account of herhusband that forms one of the most intimate and winning biographies written by an American author. [2S8]. The second scene in the series from Daviss career brings to mind the private sorrows that fell to his June 13, 1862, while a hundred thousand Union soldiers pressed at the very gates of Richmond,his infant son, William Howell, lay at the point of death. The harassed statesman and devoted fatherwrote Mrs. Davis: ... My heart sunk within meat the news of the suffering of my angel telegram of the 12th gives assurance of the subsidence of disease. But the look of pain andexhaustion, the gentle complaint, I am tired, which has for so many years oppressed me, seems tohave been revived; and unless God spares me another such trial, what is to become of me, I dont Garnett will, I hope, reach you this morning. He carried with him what he regarded as a specificremedy. . My ease, my health, my property, my life, I can give to the cause of my country. Theheroism which could lay my wife and children on any sacri
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