DAVIS, JEFFERSON]. Letter and memorandum, text and signatures of both in the hand of Varina Davis, his wife, to Major Jonathan W. Daniel Beauvoir, Mississippi, 20 July 1883. Together 7 pages, large 8vo, purple ink on lined paper, the edge of the memorandum soiled. A long letter to a former Confederate officer whose oration at the dedication of the Lee statue had impressed Davis; the former President denies that he kept Lee's son, George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913) anchored to a desk in Richmond: "When the seat of Government of the Confederate States was moved to Richmond, I selected G.W.C. Lee as one of two Aides de Camp...I formed a high estimate of his capacity as a soldier...I suggested to him...a command in the active Army. He said there were others whose service entitled them to priority...Genl R.E. Lee once when in want of a chief engineer did indicate a wish to have Custis in that capacity...[but I] would not consent to transfer him...to...his Father, under whose shadow he would be dwarfed..." It is untrue, he adds, that he "kept Custis Lee on my personal staff against his wishes and deprived him of the opportunity to prove himself in the field..." In the accompanying letter, Davis adds that Custis "was an honest man, a fearless man, and he was my friend..."
DAVIS, JEFFERSON]. Letter and memorandum, text and signatures of both in the hand of Varina Davis, his wife, to Major Jonathan W. Daniel Beauvoir, Mississippi, 20 July 1883. Together 7 pages, large 8vo, purple ink on lined paper, the edge of the memorandum soiled. A long letter to a former Confederate officer whose oration at the dedication of the Lee statue had impressed Davis; the former President denies that he kept Lee's son, George Washington Custis Lee (1832-1913) anchored to a desk in Richmond: "When the seat of Government of the Confederate States was moved to Richmond, I selected G.W.C. Lee as one of two Aides de Camp...I formed a high estimate of his capacity as a soldier...I suggested to him...a command in the active Army. He said there were others whose service entitled them to priority...Genl R.E. Lee once when in want of a chief engineer did indicate a wish to have Custis in that capacity...[but I] would not consent to transfer him...to...his Father, under whose shadow he would be dwarfed..." It is untrue, he adds, that he "kept Custis Lee on my personal staff against his wishes and deprived him of the opportunity to prove himself in the field..." In the accompanying letter, Davis adds that Custis "was an honest man, a fearless man, and he was my friend..."
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