Letter by Gen. Nelson Miles reporting on prisoner Jefferson Davis, August 22, 1865
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) was an American soldier, plantation owner, and politician. He served as the American Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857 under President Franklin Pierce. Davis then served in the U.S. Senate representing Mississippi. At this time tensions between the North and the South were high, and Davis joined the “Committee of Thirteen” in an effort to find a compromise and avoid war. However, Mississippi left the Union and Davis resigned in January 1861. The following month he was elected President of the Confederate States. He remained in this position during the American Civil War. In 1865 Davis was captured by Union troops. He was indicted for treason and sent to prison for two years. Clement Claiborne Clay (1816-1882) was an American lawyer and politician who served in the Confederate Congress during the Civil War. Jefferson Davis sent Clay to Canada to work as an agent in an attempt to undermine the Union. In 1864 he was living in St. Catharines. His work in Canada proved to be unsuccessful and he left to return to the United States several months later. He was later implicated in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and decided to surrender to the authorities, hoping that this would help prove his innocence. He was imprisoned at Fort Monroe in Hampton, Virginia, with Jefferson Davis. Both men were released from prison in 1866 or 1867.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.089 | 0.024 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".