Letter to Jefferson Davis, 1863 Dec. 11.

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Letter to Jefferson Davis, 1863 Dec. 11.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38476587

The collection consists of a letter from Herschel V. Johnson in the Confederate Senate on December 11, 1863 to President Jefferson Davis discussing the importance of Richmond (Va.) and Northwest Georgia to the Confederacy and the need to defend these areas at all costs.

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library

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Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889

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Mary Ann Lamar Cobb (1818-1889), wife of Gen. Howell Cobb (1815-1868). From the description of Letter to Mary Ann Lamar Cobb, 1888 Oct. 2. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38476494 Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was born in Kentucky. He attended Transylvania University for a short time before enrolling at West Point in 1824, at the age of 16. He graduated in 1828 and immediately joined the First Infantry. His regiment was engaged in the Blackhawk War of 1831. In 1833, he became a...

Johnson, Herschel V. (Herschel Vespasian), 1812-1880

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Herschel Vespasian Johnson was born on September 18, 1812, in Burke County. Like most of Georgia's antebellum political lights, Johnson passed through the University of Georgia, graduating in 1834. He took up the law and established prosperous practices in Augusta, Louisville, and finally Milledgeville, the state capital. Ambrose Wright, the future Confederate officer and newspaper journalist, began his study of law in Johnson's Louisville office. In 1844, the same year he moved to Milledgeville...