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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This volume provides the complete text of key Scripture passages
that form the basis for theological study. The text used is the
highly readable and modern New International Version. The verses
listed are grouped by the classical categories of systematic
theology (e.g., God, Christ, Salvation); on disputed points, verses
from which the major theological views derive are given. Footnotes
provide clarification and brief commentary on verses as
appropriate. This work is intended to assist the theological
student who might not take the time to look up the verses cited in
systematic theologies, but it will also be useful to anyone seeking
to better understand the major themes of Scripture.
Jefferson Davis was the first and last President of the
Confederacy. His two volume history of the controversy, conflict,
and resolution is unique. To understand America's Civil War, you
have to understand this man.
The history of the Government of the Southern Slave States from the
perspective of the one and only Confederate President.
Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial
figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde
wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United
States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of
participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a
source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners.
This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his
writings culled in large part from the authoritative "Papers of
Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches
published by the Louisiana State University Press, and includes
thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately
held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly
edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major
speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his
farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as
Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these
selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson
Davis.
As William J. Cooper, Jr., writes in his Introduction, "Davis's
notability does not come solely from his crucial role in the Civil
War. Born on the Kentucky frontier in the first decade of the
nineteenth century, he witnessed and participated in the epochal
transformation of the United States from a fledgling country to a
strong nation spanning the continent. In his earliest years his
father moved farther south and west to Mississippi. As a young army
officer just out of West Point, he served on the northwestern and
southwestern frontiers in an army whose chief mission was to
protectsettlers surging westward. Then, in 1846 and 1847, as
colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment, he fought in the Mexican
War, which resulted in 1848 in the Mexican Cession, a massive
addition to the United States of some 500,000 square miles,
including California and the modern Southwest. As secretary of war
and U.S. senator in the 1850s, he advocated government support for
the building of a transcontinental railroad that he believed
essential to bind the nation from ocean to ocean."
"From the Hardcover edition.
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.
Volume 8 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis brings the Confederate
president to the second year of the War Between the States and
shows that during 1862 Davis was almost completely overwhelmed by
military matters. Indeed, early that year, in an address to the
Confederate Congress, he admitted that in trying to defend every
part of its far-flung territory, the ""Government had attempted
more than it had power successfully to achieve."" During 1862,
Judah P. Benjamin was replaced as secretary of war by George W.
Randolph, who was then succeeded by James A. Seddon. As the year
advanced, Davis' relationships with certain key generals continued
to sour. Chief among them were P.G.T. Beauregard, who was finally
removed from his last significant command, and Joseph E. Johnston,
whose fall from grace precipitated Robert E. Lee's rise to
influence as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee proved
to be as adept in communicating and coordinating plans with the
president as Johnston had been inept. At the inconclusive Battle of
Shiloh, Davis lost Albert Sidney Johnston, a trusted friend and the
general he had most admired. Like Shiloh, many other campaigns of
1862 ended in stalemate and withdrawal, including Henry H. Sibley's
New Mexico campaign, Braxton Bragg's Kentucky campaign, Earl Van
Dorn's battle at Elkhorn Tavern, and the Confederacy's greatest
gamble, Lee's Invasion of Maryland. Correspondence with Davis'
brother, Joseph E. Davis, reveals the ever-worsening situation in
Mississippi. The Federal occupation of New Orleans, the fall of new
Madrid and Island No. 10, and Grants repeated attempts to capture
Vicksburg heightened anxiety about the area and persuaded the
president to tour the western theater in December. Because the
Union's springtime invasion of Richmond prompted Davis to send his
wife and children away, Volume 8 contains an unusually rich
collection of letters exchanged during their separation. This
correspondence offers a rare glimpse into the minds and hearts of
Davis and his wife. Altogether, more than 2,000 documents, many
never before published, are included in Volume 8; 133 are printed
in full. Culled from fifty-nine repositories, twenty-one private
collections, and numerous printed sources, they reveal that despite
the many setbacks he suffered in 1862, Davis maintained a deep
devotion to duty and an unbending will to win.
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