Fort McAllister, situated on the right side of the Ogeechee, about six miles from Ossabaw Sound, was a serious obstacle in his way, as it was a work of considerable strength, mounting twenty-one heavy guns, with a deep and wide ditch ...
A Short History of the Confederate States of America
Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.The book is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession argument.
Written in the first person, this work tells not only of the major events of the war-as experienced by the president of one of the warring sides-but also spells out the background, as seen by the South, of the origins of the conflict.
Final work from the pen of Jefferson Davis and not printed until 1890 after his death. Civil War History.
A Short History of the Confederate States of America
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