The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1871-1879
- ISBN-10
- 0807139084
- ISBN-13
- 9780807139080
- Series
- The Papers of Jefferson Davis
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 768
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-03-12
- Publisher
- LSU Press
- Author
- Jefferson Davis
Description
Volume 13 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he becomes head of the Carolina Life Insurance Company of Memphis and attempts to gain a financial foothold for his newly reunited family. Having lost everything in the Civil War and spent two years immediately afterwards in federal prison, Davis faced a mounting array of financial woes, health problems, and family illnesses and tragedies in the 1870s. Despite setbacks during this decade, Davis also began a quest to rehabilitate his image and protect his historical legacy. Although his position with the insurance company provided temporary financial stability, Davis resigned after the Panic of 1873 forced the sale of the company and its new owners canceled payments to Carolina policyholders. He left for England the following year in search of employment and to recuperate from ongoing illnesses. In 1876, Davis became president of the London-based Mississippi Valley Society and relocated to New Orleans to run the company. Throughout the 1870s, Davis waged an expensive and seemingly endless legal battle to regain his prewar Mississippi plantation, Brierfield. He also began working on his memoirs at Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast estate of a family friend. Though disfranchised, Davis addressed the subject of politics with more frequency during this decade, criticizing the Reconstruction policies of the federal government while defending the South and the former Confederacy. The volume ends with Davis's inheritance of Beauvoir, which was his last home. The editors have drawn from over one hundred manuscript repositories and private collections in addition to numerous published sources in compiling Volume 13.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: September 1864–May 1865
By Jefferson DavisThe 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 ...
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1862
By Jefferson Davis?
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: October 1863–August 1864
By Jefferson Davis... mentioning “Genl Cooper's habits, as an objection”; Robinson avows Cooper has been sober for fifteen months; Robert M. Jones, former delegate to Congress, agrees that Cooper, a true personal and political friend of Davis', ...
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1808–1840
By Jefferson DavisThis volume covers Davis' early years in Mississippi and Kentucky, his career at West Point, his first military assignments, and his tragic marriage to Sarah Knox Taylor.
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: July 1846--December 1848
By Jefferson DavisThe first item in this volume is a speech as he prepares to leave on a riverboat to serve in the Mexican War.
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1861
By Jefferson DavisVictory at Manassas produced euphoria among southerners but plunged the president into the first of several unfortunate controversies with his generals, this one over the failure to pursue the enemy and capitalize on success.Throughout 1861 ...
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: June 1865--December 1870
By Jefferson Davis... ser2, v8, 570–71; V. Davis, Memoir, 2:649; Craven, Prison Life, 333–34; ClayClopton, Belle of the Fifties, 263–67). ... *Derived from a sixteenth-century French proverb and spoken by Maria in Laurence Sterne's 1768 A Sentimental ...
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: January–September 1863
By Jefferson DavisAlthough Davis suffered poor health during much of the nine-month period, he remained an active and vital leader. Volume 9 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis gives a vivid picture of the tasks he faced.
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: September 1864--May 1865
By Jefferson DavisAllen, Felicity. jefferson Davis: Unconquerable Heart. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1999. American Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1865. New York: D. Appleton, 1870. American State Papers.
-
The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1853–1855
By Jefferson DavisMary Seaton Dix, Associate Editor The fifth volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis presents 9,000 of the approximately 21,000 known Davis letters, papers, and speeches from the years 1853 through 1855, when Davis served as secretary of war ...