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Confederate President
Jefferson Davis (1861)
Apparently the news media has been in the habit of
producing “fake news” for a very long time.
In late 1861, the New
York Herald reported: “Our latest
telegraphic advices from Louisville, Washington and Fortress Monroe assure us
positively of the death of Jefferson Davis….Considering that his health has
been in a very shattered condition for several years, and considering his
extraordinary labors, anxieties, and exhausting excitements of the last five
months, we think it remarkable that he was not carried off three or four months
ago.”
This was a case of wishful thinking. Davis was alive and active. Indeed, he lived another twenty eight years,
dying at the age of 81.
Southern editors lambasted the article as “Yankee delusion
and unreliability,” denouncing the Herald
as a “mendacious journal…(with) a record for lying second to none.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Jefferson Davis Funeral (1889)
In 1860, disgruntled secessionists in the deep North
rebel against the central government and plunge America into Civil War. Will
the Kingdom survive? The land will run red with blood before peace comes again.
A brief look at love, sex, and marriage in the Civil War. The book
covers courtship, marriage, birth control and pregnancy, divorce, slavery and
the impact of the war on social customs.
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