Polk Family Papers Box 11 Document 4

Letters: August 15, 1863

1863, Aug. 15

Bishop Polk, to Bishop Elliott, re: a letter in confidence about the confederacy and his lack of confidence in President Davis, remarking that he is proud, self reliant and stubborn; his confidence that "we have had abundantly the means to defy the Yankees if they had been judiciously used"; his belief that even now if the proper means were adopted and pressed through the proper agencies a recovery could be made. More details on the subject. 4pp.