Davis writes to his sister about family business and who sent him letters this month. Davis is now completely disenchanted with the war, though he does not believe that Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation has done anything to help nor hinder the Union. He wishes that the entire Confederacy could be crushed, that traitorous Northern office seekers be piled on top of its ruins as an example, and that every Black person would be expelled from the North American continent so that the war could stop. He considers himself a military slave and despises the corruption that he sees in American politics and the military hierarchy. Davis assumes that the war will end with the Union conceeding to the Confederacy, because he cannot see how the Union can hold out much longer.
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