Jefferson Davis Confederate President
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Jefferson Davis
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Author : Joann J. Burch
language : en
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Release Date : 2014-12-15
Jefferson Davis written by Joann J. Burch and has been published by Enslow Publishing, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-15 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
As president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis played a key role in the South's unsuccessful attempt to separate from the Union during the Civil War. This book traces the life of the Confederate leader from his childhood in Mississippi, to his years as a United States politician, through the Civil War, and his attempt to rebuild his life and reputation after the Confederacy was defeated by the Union.
Jefferson Davis
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Author : Joey Frazier
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Jefferson Davis written by Joey Frazier and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Presidents categories.
This title tells the story of Jefferson Davis's life, the only president of the Southern States during their secession from the Union.
Jefferson Davis
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Author : William C. Davis
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1992
Jefferson Davis written by William C. Davis and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Employing newly released material from diaries and papers, an acclaimed Civil War scholar presents an incomparable and definitive biography of the president of the Confederacy. Includes 16 pages of black-and-white photographs and an index. Originally published by HarperCollins in 1991. Advertising in military history publications.
Jefferson Davis
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Author : Jean K. Williams
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2005
Jefferson Davis written by Jean K. Williams and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
After the secession of eleven southern states, Jefferson Davis gave up his U.S. citizenship to accept the presidency of the Confederate States of America and led the South in the Civil War.
The Papers Of Jefferson Davis
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 2003-11-07
The Papers Of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-11-07 with History categories.
During the last nine months of the Civil War, virtually all of the news reports and President Jefferson Davis’s correspondence confirmed the imminent demise of the Confederate States, the nation Davis had striven to uphold since 1861. But despite defeat after defeat on the battlefield, a recalcitrant Congress, nay-sayers in the press, disastrous financial conditions, failures in foreign policy and peace efforts, and plummeting national morale, Davis remained in office and tried to maintain the government—even after the fall of Richmond on April 2—until his capture by Union forces on May 10, 1865. The eleventh volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows these tumultuous last months of the Confederacy and illuminates Davis’s policies, feelings, ideas, and relationships, as well as the viewpoints of hundreds of southerners—critics and supporters—who asked favors, pointed out abuses, and offered advice on myriad topics. Printed here for the first time are many speeches and a number of new letters and telegrams. In the course of the volume, Robert E. Lee officially becomes general in chief, Joseph E. Johnston is given a final command, legislation is enacted to place slaves in the army as soldiers, and peace negotiations are opened at the highest levels. The closing pages chronicle Davis’s dramatic flight from Richmond, including emotional correspondence with his wife as the two endeavor to find each other en route and make plans for the future in the wreckage of their lives. The holdings of seventy different manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources contribute to Volume 11, the fifth in the Civil War period.
Jefferson Davis Confederate President
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Author : Herman Hattaway
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Jefferson Davis Confederate President written by Herman Hattaway and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"Now two Civil War historians, Herman Hattaway and Richard Beringer, take a new and closer look at Davis's presidency. In the process, they provide a clearer image of his leadership and ability to handle domestic, diplomatic, and military matters under the most trying circumstances without the considerable industrial and population resources of the North and without the formal recognition of other nations."--BOOK JACKET.
Jefferson Davis The Essential Writings
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher: Modern Library
Release Date : 2004-08-10
Jefferson Davis The Essential Writings written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by Modern Library this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-10 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part from the authoritative Papers of Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches published by the Louisiana State University Press, and includes thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson Davis. As William J. Cooper, Jr., writes in his Introduction, “Davis’s notability does not come solely from his crucial role in the Civil War. Born on the Kentucky frontier in the first decade of the nineteenth century, he witnessed and participated in the epochal transformation of the United States from a fledgling country to a strong nation spanning the continent. In his earliest years his father moved farther south and west to Mississippi. As a young army officer just out of West Point, he served on the northwestern and southwestern frontiers in an army whose chief mission was to protect settlers surging westward. Then, in 1846 and 1847, as colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment, he fought in the Mexican War, which resulted in 1848 in the Mexican Cession, a massive addition to the United States of some 500,000 square miles, including California and the modern Southwest. As secretary of war and U.S. senator in the 1850s, he advocated government support for the building of a transcontinental railroad that he believed essential to bind the nation from ocean to ocean.”
Jefferson Davis
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Author : Robert R. Potter
language : en
Publisher: Steck-Vaughn
Release Date : 1994
Jefferson Davis written by Robert R. Potter and has been published by Steck-Vaughn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A biography of the soldier and statesman who became the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis American
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Author : William James Cooper (Jr.)
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2000
Jefferson Davis American written by William James Cooper (Jr.) and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
West Point graduate, secretary of war under President Pierce, U.S. senator from Mississippi-- how was it that this statesman and patriot came to be president of the Confederacy, leading the struggle to destroy the United States? This is the question at the center of William Cooper's engrossing and authoritative biography of Jefferson Davis. Basing his account on the massive archival record left by Davis and his family and associates, Cooper delves not only into the events of Davis's public and personal life but also into the ideas that shaped and compelled him. We see Davis as a devoted American, yet also as a wealthy plantation owner who believed slavery to be a moral and social good that could coexist with free labor in an undivided Union. We see how his initially reluctant support of secession ended in his absolute commitment to the Confederacy and his identification of it with the legacy of liberty handed down by the Founding Fathers. We see the chaos that attended the formation of the Confederate government while the Civil War was being fought, and the ever-present tension between the commitment to states' rights and the need for centralized authority. We see Davis's increasingly autocratic behavior, his involvement in military decision-making, and his desperation to save the Confederacy even at the expense of slavery. And we see Davis in defeat: imprisoned for two years, then, for the rest of his life, unrepentant about the South's attempt to break away, yet ultimately professing his faith in the restored Union. This is the definitive life of one of the most complex and fascinating figures in our nation's history.
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Date : 2014-09-16
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by HarperCollins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Political Science categories.
One of the bloodiest conflicts ever to take place on American soil, the Civil War pitted brother against brother as North and South fought to secure their futures. Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s 1881 memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a history of the Confederate States of America and a vindication of the Southern cause. While Rise and Fall disappointed Davis’s hopes of restoring his fortune, destroyed during and after the war, it was successful in rehabilitating his image in the minds of Southerners, and led to the eventual reinstatement of his American citizenship in 1978. HarperTorch brings great works of non-fiction and the dramatic arts to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperTorch collection to build your digital library.