LORD WOLSELEY AND JEFF DAVIS.
The Louisville Courier ' Journal ■ of May 7 publishes a long and savage review by Jefferson Davis, ex-President of the defunct Southern Confederacy, of Lord ' Wolseley's estimate of General Robert E. Lee while commanding the Confederate forces. Davis takes Wolseley to task for misstatement of fact and inaccuracies in treating of the organisation of the Confederacy. He wonders, in conclusion, why the English general should be so perverted and spiteful against one (Davis) who does not remember ever to have seen him or to have felt any interest in him except when report created the unrealised hope that he would save General Gordon from impending sacrifice. Murat Halstead, the editor of the Cincinatti Inquirer, replied to Davis. He 'agrees with Wolseley in many of his points, and thinks with him that there is ho doubt that the Federal army was in a dangerous situation at Fredericksburg, justifying the British general's phrase' of "a tight place."
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Otago Witness, Issue 1858, 1 July 1887, Page 14
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