DAVIS 



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DAVITT 



Fortress Monroe. A Virginia grand jury in- 

 dicted him for treason, and for two years he 

 remained in prison, unable to secure a trial. 

 In 1867 he was released on bail, Horace Greeley 

 and other prominent Northern men qualifying 

 as bondsmen. He was included in the general 

 amnesty of 1868, 

 and in February. 

 1869, was given full 

 liberty. 



His last years 

 were spent in dig- 

 nified retirement, 

 in which he gave 

 himself up to writ- 

 ing and study. He 

 died on Decem- 

 ber 6, 1889, and 

 was buried in 

 New Orleans, 



IN MEMORY OF WINNIE DAVIS 

 The monument to the "Daughter of the Con- 

 federacy," at Richmond. 



but in 1893 his body was removed to Rich- 

 mond, where a monument has been erected to 

 his memory. In the same city is a monument 

 to his daughter Winnie. In 1844 he had mar- 

 ried a daughter of William B. Howell, son of 

 Governor Howell of New Jersey. This gifted 

 woman, whose noble spirit matched her hus- 

 band's, wrote an excellent biography of the 

 great Southern leader. E.C.B. 



The following books will be interesting to those 

 desiring a fuller account of Jefferson Davis' ex- 

 periences : Craven's Prison Life of Jefferson 

 Davis, and the biographies of Dodd and Alfriend. 



Related Subjects. The following articles in 

 these volumes will make more clear certain 

 phases in the career of Jefferson Davis : 



Monterey, Battle of 



Nullification 



Secession 



Squatter Sovereignty 



States' Rights 



War of Secession 



Black Hawk 

 Calhoun, John C. 

 Compromise of 1850 

 Confederate States of 



America 

 Fort Monroe 

 Mexican War 



DAVIS, REBECCA HARDING and RICHARD 

 HARDING, mother and son, two writers who 

 have won distinction in current American lit- 

 erature. 

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Rebecca Harding Davis (1831-1910) was the 

 wife of L. Clarke Davis, editor of the Phila- 

 delphia Inquirer. Her first story, Lije in the 

 Iron Mills, published in the Atlantic Monthly 

 in 1861, attracted wide attention because of 

 its realism, and it marked the introduction of 

 a new theme in American fiction the labor 

 question. She contributed to several current 

 publications, notably The Youth's Companion, 

 winning fame through her interesting stories 

 for young people. Among her books are A Law 

 Unto Herself, Kitty's Choice, Dallas Galbraith, 

 Kent Hampden and Bits of Gossip. 



Richard Harding Davis (1864-1916) held high 

 rank among modern short-story writers and 

 as a war correspondent. He was born in 

 Philadelphia, Pa., and was educated at Johns 

 Hopkins and Lehigh universities. His real 

 foundation for 

 his literary work, 

 however, came in 

 his experience as 

 a reporter in 

 Philadelphia and 

 as a war corre- 

 spondent for the 

 London Times 

 and the New 

 York Herald in 

 the Turkish- 

 Greek, Spanish- RICHARD HARDING DAVIS 

 American, Boer and Russo-Japanese wars and 

 in the early months of the War of the Nations. 

 While on the latter assignment he proved him- 

 self one of the greatest of war correspondents. 

 He was a trained and alert observer, and drew 

 his word pictures with bold and telling strokes, 

 revealing a keen sense of the dramatic and a 

 gift for vigorous and picturesque phrasing. 



Among the best-known of his stories are 

 Ranson's Folly, a tale of the adventures of a 

 young officer at a United States army post, and 

 The Bar Sinister, a remarkable story of a dog. 

 Other notable titles are Van Bibber and 

 Others, Soldiers of Fortune, Captain Macklin, 

 The Man Who Could Not Lose and The Lost 

 Road. His books of travel and stories of his 

 war experiences, which have all the admirable 

 qualities of his fiction, include Cuba in War 

 Times, With Both Armies in South Africa and 

 The Congo and the Coast of Africa. He has 

 also written several plays, among which are 

 The Taming of Hden, The Dictator and Black- 

 mail. 



DAVITT, dav'it, MICHAEL (1846-1906), an 

 Irish political leader, founder of the Irish Land 



