Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 866
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisThe Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 882
Book Description
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
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306804199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
A decade after his release from Federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis—ex-President of the Confederacy, the "Southern Lincoln," popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause—began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the "cause," and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed "an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities." The result was a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern States to the Congress in the late 1860s. Supplemented with a new historical foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning James M. McPherson, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I, belongs in the library of anyone interested in the root causes, the personalities, and the events of America's greatest war.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages : 782
Book Description
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
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306804182
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis—ex-president of the Confederacy, the ”Southern Lincoln,” popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause—began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the “cause,” and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed ”an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities.” The result was a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, through the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern states to the U.S. Congress in the late 1860s. Supplemented with a new historical foreword by the Pulitzer Prize–winning James M. McPherson, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I belongs in the library of anyone interested in the root causes, the personalities, and the events of America's greatest war.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781435120662
Category : Confederate States of America
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Scholar's Choice Edition
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher:
ISBN: 9781295994298
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 764
Book Description
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN: 9781484832257
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A duty to my countrymen; to the memory of those who died in defense of a cause consecrated by inheritance, as well as sustained by conviction; and to those who, perhaps less fortunate, staked all, and lost all, save life and honor, in its behalf, has impelled me to attempt the vindication of their cause and conduct. For this purpose I have decided to present an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern States to maintain their existence and their rights as sovereign communities-the creators, not the creatures, of the General Government. The social problem of maintaining the just relation between constitution, government, and people, has been found so difficult, that human history is a record of unsuccessful efforts to establish it. A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain. When our fathers dissolved their connection with Great Britain, by declaring themselves free and independent States, they constituted thirteen separate communities, and were careful to assert and preserve, each for itself, its sovereignty and jurisdiction. At a time when the minds of men are straying far from the lessons our fathers taught, it seems proper and well to recur to the original principles on which the system of government they devised was founded. The eternal truths which they announced, the rights which they declared "unalienable," are the foundation-stones on which rests the vindication of the Confederate cause.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385455839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Volume I
Author: Jefferson DavisPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781511716468
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 578
Book Description
"The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government - Volume I" from Jefferson Davis. President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War, 1861 to 1865 (1808-1889).