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John Harrison Wilson, The life of Charles Henry Dana, Chapter 21: administration of War Department (search)
etary desires Jeff Davis to be arrested, he must send his bailiffs and detectives to do the job, because his soldiers are not to be employed on such business, but also adds that if the soldiers were to try to do it, they could not succeed, because Jeff has already got beyond their reach. Of course this was written some time before your troops had succeeded in taking him a prisoner. I presume, however, that nothing will come of all the excitement and discussion upon the question except that thethe casemate in which he is confined. He was marched ashore in the midst of a guard at the head of which were the troopers of Colonel Pritchard. General Miles, formerly of the Second corps, who has been sent to the fortress to take command during Jeff's incarceration, led him along by the left arm. Davis marched with as haughty and defiant an air as Lucifer, Son of the Morning, bore after he was expelled from heaven, and I was rather surprised not to find in his mien or step the signs of that