Box 126
Container
Contains 14 Collections and/or Records:
Jefferson Davis Letters, 1860 - 1862
File — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1860 - 1862
Franklin Pierce to Jefferson Davis, New York. , 1860 January 6
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Original owned by Library of Congress.
Dates:
1860 January 6
Thomas J. Coe to Col. Davis, Brierfield., 1860 January 27
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1860 January 27
John H. Cook to Jefferson Davis, Pendleton, Ohio., 1860 February 24
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1860 February 24
H.B. Tyler to Jefferson Davis, Washington D.C., 1860 August 4
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Letter stating that Becket K. Howell (brother in-law of Davis’s) has been appointed a second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps.
Dates:
1860 August 4
Jefferson Davis to Professor A.T. Bledsoe. Montgomery, Ala. , 1861 May 18
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1861 May 18
Journal and letters of Mary Elizabeth Mitchell (“Lise”), written by Jefferson Davis., 1861 - 1866
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1861 - 1866
“The Inauguration” of and speech by Jefferson Davis. , 1861 February 16
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1861 February 16
Jefferson Davis to unnamed general about Howitzers, 1861 august 13
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1861 august 13
N.E. Barnes to President Davis, Brierfield., 1862 April 13
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1862 April 13
Jefferson Davis to Dearest Wife (Varina), Richmond., 1862 June 12
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Note saying that he had sent for doctor for their baby and that he should arrive in Raleigh shortly.
Dates:
1862 June 12
Yr B (Joeseph Davis to Jefferson Davis) O.B. Coxes, 1862 August 23
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Report of conditions on Davis’s plantation.
Dates:
1862 August 23
John Gill Shorter, Governor of Alabama, to Jefferson Davis, Montgomery, Ala. , 1862 October 22
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
Letter of John Gill Shorter, Governor of Alabama, to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, on the subject of the Confederate land force in the Gulf District.
Dates:
1862 October 22
Jefferson Davis to My dear Wife, Chattanooga, Tenn., 1862 December 15
Item — Box: 126, Folder: 6
Series Description
From the Series:
This series contains correspondence, both outgoing and incoming. Most of the materials are of a personal nature between Davis and his wife, children, or other family members. It includes letters from Mary Custis Lee and Braxton Bragg, as well as letters from Davis to General Robert E. Lee, General Josiah Gorgas, and prominent Tuscaloosa businessman, Robert Jemison. In addition to his correspondence, there are a few of Davis’s writings such as his inauguration speech and the first draft of...
Dates:
1862 December 15