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Aft er t h e War
A FTER THE W AR
D AV I D H A RD IN
Ivan R. Dee
chicago 2010
AFTER THE WAR. Copyright © 2010 by David Hardin. All rights reserved,
including the right to reproduce this book or portions thereof in any form. For
information, address: Ivan R. Dee, Publisher, 1332 North Halsted Street, Chicago
60642, a member of the Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group. Manufactured in
the United States of America and printed on acid-free paper.
www.ivanrdee.com
Foreword ix
one. The Daughter of the Confederacy. Winnie Davis 3
two. The Conqueror’s Son. Tom Sherman 22
three. The General’s Last Battle. Ulysses S. Grant 44
four. The Diarist. Mary Boykin Chesnut 71
five. The Crippled Knight. John Bell Hood 92
six. That Devil Forrest. Nathan Bedford Forrest 117
seven. The Mad Woman. Mary Todd Lincoln 142
eight. The Good Hater. Joseph E. Johnston 168
nine. The Legend. Robert E. Lee 192
ten. The Turncoat. George H. Thomas 219
eleven. Libbie’s Husband. Elizabeth and George A. Custer 245
Notes 279
Bibliography 327
Index 333
Fo r ewo r d
ix
x : a f t e r t he war
d. h.
Huntsville, Alabama
April 2010
Aft er t h e War
·1·
T h e D au g h t er o f
t h e C on f eder ac y
G
reatness seldom grants immunity from life’s ordinary sor-
rows. They are a debt suddenly come due.
Confederate President Jefferson Davis, like his enemies
Abraham Lincoln and General William Tecumseh Sherman, lost a
favored son during the Civil War. Each boy had been too young
to participate, but their premature deaths from accident or disease
would be a payment demanded for what their fathers demanded of
everyone else: the sacrifice of a son for an idea, hundreds of thou-
sands of sons.
In these ordinary sorrows the modern observer finds kinship with
the past. So much else of the war is fantastic to our times, whether in
envisioning the evils of slavery or the courage of unquestioning men
marching in resolute ranks head-on into bullet, ball, and grape. The
great, the famous, are otherwise elusive, consigned to their bronze
memorials and cement pedestals. But something like a child’s death
is a unifying sorrow in any age, and just for a moment there is a hush.
Jeff Davis is within reach. The curtain has been briefly raised.
Joseph Davis had just turned five years old on the day he died in
April 1864. He was playing in the executive mansion, the family’s
Richmond, Virginia, home, and fell from a high balcony onto a brick
pavement below. The price of greatness, of power, of responsibil-
ity for a rebellious nation was never more evident as affairs pressed
3
4 : a fte r the war
Thus when Varina returned from Europe she chose not to live
at Beauvoir but with her married daughter, Margaret Davis Hayes,
in Memphis. Only in the following year did Varina relent to join her
husband several hundred miles away.
In early 1879, Mrs. Dorsey sold Beauvoir to Davis for future pay-
ments totaling $5,500. She had kept secret that she was dying of
cancer and had moved to nearby New Orleans, where she soon suc-
cumbed. The widow left her property, including Beauvoir, to Davis.
This came despite the wishes of Dorsey family members who sued
the ex-president, but unsuccessfully.
The Jefferson Davis who commanded not only the widow’s loy-
alty but much of the postwar South’s had, during the war, faced the
burdens of a quarrelsome Confederacy, a relentless North, and an
unsympathetic world. In the years following, the troubles had not
let up. His bitterest enemies during the war had included generals
in grey such as Joseph Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard, and the
rancor endured ever after. The deaths of children and the on-again,
off-again sparring with Varina were blows that struck at the heart.
Like so many of the planter class, Davis had been left broke and
in debt by the war. The cumbersome Rise and Fall failed to be a finan-
cial success. Prison had aggravated his personal constitution, which
had seldom been healthy: fevers and an eye disease were longtime
companions. He had worked at his writings though partly blind.
The gift of Beauvoir was a godsend for Davis. Imagining him
walking along the beach just beyond and tossing sticks into the surf
for his dogs to fetch humanizes the historical portrait. One animal, a
part-Russian bulldog named Traveler, was a vicious brute trained as a
bodyguard, and he and Davis were greatly attached. By one account,
Traveler was originally acquired as a pup by Mrs. Dorsey and her
husband while in Europe, and had saved her life from an attacker
during a trip to the Middle East. The dog was similarly protective
of Davis. On their beach walks Traveler would trot between Davis
and the surf, tugging at his clothing if he strayed too close to a wave.
Beauvoir’s overnight guests had to pass muster with Traveler too,
and his patrols on the encircling veranda made it possible to keep
windows and doors unlocked.
The Daughter of the Confederacy : 7
For all his ferocity, Traveler was gentle with children—as was his
owner. But like his owner, he also had his enemies. Traveler seems
to have been poisoned.
There is also this portrait of pre-Varina Beauvoir as painted by
Davis in 1877 in a letter to “My darling Baby” (Winnie), who had
been enrolled in a school in Germany:
“The grounds are extensive and shaded by live oaks, magnolias,
cedars, etc., etc. The sea is immediately in front, and an extensive
orange orchard is near. Beyond that is one of those clear brooks,
common to the pine woods, its banks lined with a tangled wood of
sweet bay, wild olive, and vines.
“Then comes a vineyard, then a railroad, and then stretching
far far away a forest of stately long-leaved pine. By night I hear the
murmur of the sea rolling on the beach, by day a short walk brings
one to where the winds sigh through the pines, a sad yet soothing
sound. . . .”
“Sad yet soothing”—the Old South lingering and calling to its
fallen leader, in mutual mourning but still proud. Could death be
anything but near?
o f co ur se, plenty of people were still about who would not allow
the antebellum South to expire under any circumstance. Although the
Confederacy had been smashed, the South would endure. It might
not rise again in the same form, but at least it could preserve certain
attributes of the prewar society—in memory, if nothing else—as if
they were precious heirlooms. That the South would become impos-
sibly idealized would simply serve to immortalize it.
Just enough honor, beauty, hospitality, and gallantry had existed
among Southerners before the war—whether recollected by dia-
ries and maiden aunts or lavished upon the chivalric characters of
Southern-admired novels—that these qualities now, in reflection, were
more than generously distributed among the people as a whole.
In the shame of defeat and the squalor of Reconstruction, South-
erners were again eager to fasten on to these cavalier notions. Mark
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