Buckner relayed a message from Confederate General Charles Clark that, contrary to rumors Davis may have heard, Clark had "not been intoxicated since the war began" and this "as the last words of a dying man." Buckner continued to praise the ability and probity of Clark, who had been wounded at Shiloh and at Baton Rouge. Buckner's letter is followed by a note written and initialed by Jefferson Davis. In it Davis said that he regretted that Clark had "been under the painful impression that he was under such misrepresentation deprived of my confidence - no charges of the kind referred to have reached me." [Not in Rowland, Jefferson Davis, His Letters...]