P G T Beauregard And Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Davis S Generals
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Author : Gabor S. Boritt
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2000-10-12
Jefferson Davis S Generals written by Gabor S. Boritt and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-10-12 with History categories.
Confederate General P.G.T.Beauregard once wrote that "no people ever warred for independence with more relative advantages than the Confederates." If there was any doubt as to what Beauregard sought to imply, he later to chose to spell it out: the failure of the Confederacy lay with the Confederate president Jefferson Davis. In Jefferson Davis' Generals, a team of the nation's most distinguished Civil War historians present fascinating examinations of the men who led the Confederacy through our nation's bloodiest conflict, focusing in particular on Jefferson Davis' relationships with five key generals who held independent commands: Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, P.G.T. Beauregard, Braxton Bragg, and John Bell Hood. Craig Symonds examines the underlying implications of a withering trust between Johnston and his friend Jefferson Davis. And was there really harmony between Davis and Robert E. Lee? A tenuous harmony at best, according to Emory Thomas. Michael Parrish explores how Beauregard and Davis worked through a deep and mutual loathing, while Steven E. Woodworth and Herman Hattaway make contrasting evaluations of the competence of Generals Braxton Bragg and John Bell Hood. Taking a different angle on Davis' ill-fated commanders, Lesley Gordon probes the private side of war through the roles of the generals' wives, and Harold Holzer investigates public perceptions of the Confederate leadership through printed images created by artists of the day. Pulitzer Prize-winner James M. McPherson's final chapter ties the individual essays together and offers a new perspective on Confederate strategy as a whole. Jefferson Davis' Generals provides stimulating new insights into one of the most vociferously debated topics in Civil War history.
Dreams Of Victory
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Author : Sean Michael Chick
language : en
Publisher: Savas Beatie
Release Date : 2022-05-31
Dreams Of Victory written by Sean Michael Chick and has been published by Savas Beatie this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-31 with History categories.
“Chick does a good job of portraying [General Beauregard] as the first real hero of the Confederacy, who at times proved his own worst enemy.” —The NYMAS Review Few Civil War generals attracted as much debate and controversy as Pierre Gustav Toutant Beauregard. He combined brilliance and charisma with arrogance and histrionics. He was a Catholic Creole in a society dominated by white Protestants, which made him appear exotic next to the likes of Albert Sidney Johnston and Robert E. Lee. He was reviled by Jefferson Davis and mocked by Mary Chesnut in her diary. Yet he was popular with his soldiers and subordinates. Outside of Lee, he was the South’s most consistently successful commander, winning at Bull Run, defending Charleston in 1863, and defeating Benjamin Butler at Bermuda Hundred and Ulysses Grant and George Meade at Petersburg. Yet, he lived his life in the shadow of his one major defeat: Shiloh. Beauregard’s career before and after the war was no less tumultuous. He was born among the Creole elite of Louisiana, but rejected the life of a planter in favor of the military, inspired by tales of Napoléon. He was considered a shining light of the antebellum army and performed superbly in the Mexican-American War. Yet he complained about a lack of promotion and made a frustrating stab at being mayor of New Orleans in 1858. After the war, he was a successful railroad executive and took a stand against racism, violence, and corruption during Reconstruction, but he was ousted from both railroads he oversaw and his foray into Reconstruction politics came to naught. And though he provided for his family and left them a hefty sum after his death, the money was mostly gained by working for the corrupt Louisiana Lottery. In Dreams of Victory: General P.G.T. Beauregard in the Civil War, Sean Michael Chick explores a life of contradictions and dreams unrealized—in a biography of one of the most fascinating figures of the Civil War.
P G T Beauregard And Jefferson Davis
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Author : Judythe Middleton Miller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984
P G T Beauregard And Jefferson Davis written by Judythe Middleton Miller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant categories.
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government African Servitude
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government African Servitude written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Confederate States of America categories.
A history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War.
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher: anboco
Release Date : 2016-08-26
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by anboco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-26 with Fiction categories.
The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered; that the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the States; and that the war waged by the Federal Government against the seceding States was in disregard of the limitations of the Constitution, and destructive of the principles of the Declaration of Independence. The author, from his official position, may claim to have known much of the motives and acts of his countrymen immediately before and during the war of 1861-'65, and he has sought to furnish material far the future historian, who, when the passions and prejudices of the day shall have given place to reason and sober thought, may, better than a contemporary, investigate the causes, conduct, and results of the war. The incentive to undertake the work now offered to the public was the desire to correct misapprehensions created by industriously circulated misrepresentations as to the acts and purposes of the people and the General Government of the Confederate States. By the reiteration of such unappropriate terms as "rebellion" and "treason," and the asseveration that the South was levying war against the United States, those ignorant of the nature of the Union, and of the reserved powers of the States, have been led to believe that the Confederate States were in the condition of revolted provinces, and that the United States were forced to resort to arms for the preservation of their existence.
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1881
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1881 with Confederate States of America categories.
A history of the Confederate States of America and an apologia for the causes that the author believed led to and justified the American Civil War.
Jefferson Davis And His Generals
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Author : Steven E. Woodworth
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1990
Jefferson Davis And His Generals written by Steven E. Woodworth and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Jefferson Davis is a historical figure who provokes strong passions among scholars. Through the years historians have place him at both ends of the spectrum: some have portrayed him as a hero, others have judged him incompetent.
P G T Beauregard
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Author : T. Harry Williams
language : en
Publisher: LSU Press
Release Date : 1995-02-01
P G T Beauregard written by T. Harry Williams and has been published by LSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-02-01 with History categories.
First published in 1955 to wide acclaim, T. Harry Williams’ P. G. T. Beauregard is universally regarded as “the first authoritative portrait of the Confederacy’s always dramatic, often perplexing” general (Chicago Tribune). Chivalric, arrogant, and of exotic Creole Louisiana origin, Beauregard participated in every phase of the Civil War from its beginning to its end. He rigidly adhered to the principles of war derived from his studies of Jomini and Napoleon, and yet many of his battle plans were rejected by his superiors, who regarded him as excitable, unreliable, and contentious. After the war, Beauregard was almost the only prominent Confederate general who adapted successfully to the New South, running railroads and later supervising the notorious Louisiana Lottery. This paradox of a man who fought gallantly to defend the Old South and then helped industrialize it is the fascinating subject of Williams’ superb biography.
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government
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Author : Jefferson Davis
language : en
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Release Date : 2024-05-04
The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government written by Jefferson Davis and has been published by BoD – Books on Demand this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-04 with Fiction categories.
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
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.