Jefferson Davis papers
Contributors: Stephenson, Nathaniel W. (Nathaniel Wright), 1867-1935
Language: eng
Number of pages: 625
Subjects: Correspondence; Politics and government; Railroads; Monterrey, Battle of, Monterrey, Mexico, 1846; Mexican War, 1846-1848; Confederate States of America; Plantations; Confederate States of America. Army; Veterans; History
Description: Correspondence, articles, speeches, photocopies of land grants, newspaper clippings, notes of historian Nathaniel W. Stephenson summarizing letters and writings by Davis which were printed in The War of the Rebellion : A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies (1880-1902), and drafts of military reports concerning the Battle of Monterrey (1846) in the Mexican War.  Subjects include admission of California as a state, Mississippi state politics, a southern transcontinental railroad, and other prewar national issues.  Correspondents include Amos B. Corwine, Hamlet J. Harris, William Maynadier, Philip A. Roach, and Crafts J. Wright.

Includes Varina Davis's correspondence, 1889-1906, relating primarily to her husband's capture on May 10, 1865; to family and personal matters; and to the conversion of Beauvoir, Davis's home in Biloxi, Miss., to a home for Confederate veterans.
Notes: Open to research.

Microfilm edition of a portion of these papers is available, no. 14,931.

Microfilm produced from originals in the Manuscript Division. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1971.

In part, photocopies. [S.l.].

Gift, transfer, and purchase, 1895-1985.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

President of the Confederate States of America.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms007040