Excerpt from Funeral Oration, Pronounced in the Opera House in Augusta Georgia: December 11th, 1889, Upon the Occasion of the Memorial Services in Honour of President Jefferson DavisIt were impossible, my friends, within the limits of this hour to even allude to the leading events and mighty occurrences in the life and career of him whose obsequies we are now solemnizing. Born of Georgia parents in bountiful Kentucky, while yet an infant his home was transferred to Missis sippi, where his childhood and youth were spent inacommunity remarkable for the lofty, honorable, hospitable, and courteous bearing of its men, and the chastity, polish, and loveliness of its women. In such an atmosphere he acquired at the outset those gallant, urbane, refined, elevated, and commanding traits which characterized him through the whole course of his prominent and checkered career.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.