Letter and article: New York [N.Y.], 1905 Oct.

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Letter and article: New York [N.Y.], 1905 Oct.

Letter to Major S. A. Cunningham, editor of the Confederate Veteran, accompanies an article in which Mrs. Davis disputes a previously published communication from Milton Overly concerning the actions of Jefferson Davis during the fall of the Confederacy.

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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