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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 ...
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... 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 ...
... 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', ...
This 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.
Although 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.
Victory 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 ...
Allen, 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.
At the end of Volume 2 Jefferson Davis had left Congress to become a colonel in the First Mississippi Regiment. The first item in this volume is a speech as he prepares to leave on a riverboat to serve in the Mexican War.
May Seaton Dix, Associate Editor Richard E. Beringer, Visiting CoeditorIn Volume 4 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis, which covers the years 1849 to 1852, Davis had clearly chosen politics ar his life's work.