TY  - GEN
AU  - Davis,David
TI  - David Davis papers,
KW  - Johnson, Andrew,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Rockwell, Julius,
KW  - Davis family.
KW  - United States
KW  - Congress
KW  - Supreme Court
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Constitutional law
KW  - Elections
KW  - Law
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - Slavery
KW  - Southern States
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Jurists
KW  - itoamc
KW  - Senators, U.S. Congress
KW  - Illinois
N1  - Open to research
N2  - Correspondence of Davis addressed to his brother-in-law, Julius Rockwell, relating to political and social issues of the period.  Davis discusses subjects such as Abraham Lincoln, African American social and political rights, the Civil War, Andrew Johnson and the impeachment proceedings, Reconstruction, and slavery.  Other subjects include elections, national politics, issues before Congress, matters under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court, and family affairs including travels in the South
ER  -