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Dixie After the War
JEFFERSON DAVIS
After his prison life
Copyright 1867, by Anderson
Dixie After the War
An Exposition of Social Conditions Existing
in the South, During the Twelve Years
Succeeding the Fall of Richmond.
By
Myrta Lockett Avary
Author of “A Virginia Girl in the Civil War”
With an Introduction by
General Clement A. Evans
Illustrated from old paintings, daguerreotypes
and rare photographs
New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1906
Copyright, 1906, by Doubleday, Page & Company
Published September, 1906
All rights reserved,
including that of translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
To
THE MEMORY OF MY BROTHER,
PHILIP LOCKETT,
(First Lieutenant, Company G, 14th Virginia Infantry, Armistead’s Brigade,
Pickett’s Division, C. S. A.)
Entering the Confederate Army, when hardly more
than a lad, he followed General Robert E.
Lee for four years, surrendering at Appomattox.
He was in Pickett’s immortal
charge at Gettysburg, and with
Armistead when Armistead
fell on Cemetery Hill.
The faces I see before me are those of young men. Had you not been this Iwould not have appeared alone as the defender of my southland, but forlove of her I break my silence and speak to you. Before you lies thefuture—a future full of golden promise, full of recompense for nobleendeavor, full of national glory before which the world will stand amazed.Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, and all bitter sectionalfeeling, and take your place in the rank of those who will bring about aconciliation out of which will issue a reunited country.—From an addressby Jefferson Davis in his last years, to the young men of the South
INTRODUCTION
This book may be called a revelation. It seems to me a body of discoveriesthat should not be kept from the public—discoveries which have origin inmany sources but are here brought together in one book for the firs