The Papers of Jefferson Davis
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: June 1865–December 1870
By Jefferson DavisVolume 12 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he and his family fight to find their place in the world after the Civil War.
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1862
By Jefferson DavisBiographical Register of the Officers and Graduates of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., from its ... Jefferson Davis, Constitutionalist: His Letters, Papers and Speeches. ... Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes.
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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', ...
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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 ...
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: October 1863--August 1864
By Jefferson DavisCombined, Wheeler's and Jackson's commands virtually equaled Sherman's in number. ... Veteran, 17:233; Dyer, From Shiloh to San Juan, 125–32; Fisher, They Rode with Forrest and Wheeler, 74–81; Evans, Sherman's Horsemen, 210–11; ...
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1880-1889
By Jefferson DavisThe final volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy through the completion of his two monumental works on the history of the Confederate States of America.
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1871-1879
By Jefferson DavisThe 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.
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: January--September 1863
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1849–1852
By Jefferson DavisMay 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.
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1856–1860
By Jefferson DavisVolume 6 includes 116 letters printed in full with annotation, a calendar of over 6,000 items, and summaries of 53 recently discovered documents dating from 1845 through 1855, as well as illustrations and maps prepared especially for the ...
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: June 1841–July 1846
By Jefferson DavisMaking the American Thoroughbred, Especially in Tennessee, 1800-1845. Including Reminiscences of the Turf by Balie Peyton, with Notes by the Author. Nashville: Grainger Williams, 1946. Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography.
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1808–1840
By Jefferson Davis7 Watson Van Benthuysen, Eliza's brother, edited the New York American, owned by Charles King (Van Benthuysen and Hall, Van Benthuysen Genealogy, 71; Spooner [ed.], Historic Families of America, III, 70–72), and had family ties in New ...
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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 ...
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis: 1861
By Jefferson DavisLynda Lasswell Crist, Editor Mary Seaton Dix, Coeditor Introduction by Frank E. Vandiver Volume 7 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis offers a unique view of 1861, the first year of the Confederacy, Davis' presidency, and the Civil War.