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" The man, who invented the story of my having read the dispatch with exultation, had free scope for his imagination, as he was not present, and had no chance to know whereof he bore witness, even if there had been any foundation of truth for his fiction.... "
When the Bells Tolled for Lincoln: Southern Reaction to the Assassination - Page 42
by Carolyn Lawton Harrell - 1997 - 136 pages
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 930 pages
...chance to know whereof he bore witness, even if there had been any foundation of truth for his fiction. For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation,...malignity toward the people of the South ; his successor was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people, perhaps...
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 908 pages
...chance to know whereof he bore witness, even if there had been any foundation of truth for his fiction. For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation,...malignity toward the people of the South ; his successor was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people, perhaps...
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Appletons' Journal, Volume 11

Art - 1881 - 318 pages
...cheered, as was natural, at the news of the fall of one they considered as their most powerful foe. . . . For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation,...malignity toward the people of the South. His successor was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people, perhaps...
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2

Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 902 pages
...chance to know whereof he bore witness, even if there had been any foundation of truth for his fiction. For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation,...malignity toward the people of the South ; his successor was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people, perhaps...
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Lincoln in the Telegraph Office: Recollections of the United States Military ...

David Homer Bates - United States - 1907 - 452 pages
...so relentless in the war for our subjugation, we could not be expected to mourn, yet, in view of the political consequences, it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune to the South. . . . To CHAPTER XXVIII See Page 395 THE following communication from Major AEH Johnson is of historic...
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Great Epochs in American History: Described by Famous Writers from ..., Volume 8

Francis Whiting Halsey - United States - 1912 - 228 pages
...chance to know whereof he bore witness, even if there had been any foundation of truth for his fiction. For an enemy so relentless in the war for our subjugation,...malignity toward the people of the South; his successor was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people, perhaps...
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: September 1864–May 1865

Jefferson Davis - History - 2003 - 770 pages
...Fall, 2:683; Sherman, Memoirs, 2:349). 6Davis' recollection of his reaction to Lincoln's assassination: "it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great...malignity toward the people of the South; his successor was without power in the North, and the embodiment of malignity toward the Southern people." Stephen...
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