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The Papers of Jefferson Davis - 1880-1889 (Hardcover)
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The Papers of Jefferson Davis - 1880-1889 (Hardcover)
Series: The Papers of Jefferson Davis
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The 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. In the first, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate
Government (1881), Davis sought to recast the Confederacy as a just
and moral nation that was constitutionally correct in standing up
for its rights. Himself the subject of heated debates about why the
Confederacy lost, Davis also used the book to castigate Confederate
government and military officials who he believed had failed the
cause. Later, A Short History of the Confederate States (1890)
attempted to burnish the image of the former Confederacy and to
refute accusations of intentional mistreatment of Union prisoners.
While completing these books, Davis attended and spoke at numerous
Confederate memorial services and monument dedications, all the
while waging a bitter feud with two of his former top
generals-Joseph E. Johnston and P. G. T. Beauregard-over the
reasons for the fall of the Confederacy. In late 1889, having
returned to New Orleans from a trip to his plantation, Brierfield,
Davis succumbed to pneumonia. His funeral procession attracted an
estimated 150,000 mourners, a testament to the lasting popularity
of the Confederacy's only president. In volume 14 of The Papers of
Jefferson Davis, the editors have drawn from over one hundred
manuscript repositories and private collections, in addition to
numerous published sources, to offer a compelling portrait of Davis
over the last decade of his life.
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