1869 1ed Life of Jefferson Davis Civil War Confederate CSA Secrets Confederacy
Life of Jefferson Davis Civil War Confederate CSA Secrets Confederacy. A fine first edition of the life and career of Jefferson Davis including information on the characteristics of the American South and Confederacy during the Civil War. Davis (1807 1889) was an American soldier and politician who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Edward Alfred Pollard (1832 1872) was a Virginian journalist and author. Pollard was a Confederate sympathizer during the American Civil War and wrote several books on the causes and events of the conflict.
Life of Jefferson Davis, with a seceret history of the Southern Confederacy, gathered behind the scenes in Richmond. Containing curous and extraordinary information of the principal southern characters in the late war, in connection with President Davis, and in relation to the various intrigues of his administration. Philadelphia, Chicago [etc] National Pub.
Frontispiece portrait of Jefferson Davis. Wear as seen in photos. Complete with all viii + 536 pages; plus indexes, prefaces, and such; title page loose but present. 8.75in X 6in (22.5cm x 15cm). Davis[1] (June 3, 1807/1808[2] December 6, 1889) was an American soldier and politician who was the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War (18611865).
He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any foreign country. Davis was born in Kentucky to a moderately prosperous farmer, and grew up on his brother's large cotton plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana.
His brother Joseph secured his appointment to the U. Military Academy at West Point. After he graduated, Jefferson served six years as a lieutenant in the United States Army. He served as the U. Secretary of War, 1853 to 1857, under President Franklin Pierce, and as a Democratic U. An operator of a large cotton plantation in Mississippi with over 100 slaves, he was well known for his support of slavery during his time in the Senate. He argued against secession, but did agree that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the Union. Davis lost his first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, to malaria after three months of marriage, and the disease almost killed him as well. He suffered from ill health for much of his life. He had six children with his second, younger wife, Varina Howell Davis, but only two survived him. Many historians attribute the Confederacy's weaknesses to the leadership of President Davis.[3] His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, favoritism toward old friends, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones, and resistance to public opinion all worked against him. [4][5] Historians agree he was a much less effective war leader than his Union counterpart Abraham Lincoln. After Davis was captured in 1865, he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after two years. While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in ex-Confederate affection after the war by his leading general, Robert E.
Davis wrote a memoir entitled The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, which he completed in 1881. By the late 1880s, he began to encourage reconciliation, telling Southerners to be loyal to the Union. Ex-Confederates came to appreciate his role as a Southern patriot and he became a hero of the Lost Cause in the New South. The item "1869 1ed Life of Jefferson Davis Civil War Confederate CSA Secrets Confederacy" is in sale since Wednesday, November 16, 2016. This item is in the category "Books\Antiquarian & Collectible". The seller is "schilb_antique_books" and is located in Columbia, Missouri. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Subject: Americana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Special Attributes: First Edition
- Year Printed: 1869
- Language: English
- Original/Facsimile: Original
- Topic: Civil War (1861-65)