President Jefferson Davis's last message to the Southern people: "It is unwise and unworthy of us to allow our energies to falter and our efforts to become relaxed under reverses, however calamitous they may be ... it is for us to show by our bearing under reverses, how wretched has been the self-deception of those who have believed us less able to endure misfortune with fortitude than to encounter danger with courage. Let us, then, not despond, but ... relying on God, meet the foe with fresh de