Jefferson Davis Memoir + Bonus Books

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Jefferson Davis
Ex- President of
the Confederate States of
America
,
A Memoir
By His Wife
Volumes I and II
By Varina Anne Howell Davis
Published 1890
699 + 939 pages, illustrated, searchable
- Bonus #1 -
The
Davis
Memorial Volume:
Or, Our Dead President,
Jefferson Davis
And the World’s Tribute to His Memory
By J. Wm. Jones
Published 1890
672 pages, illustrated, searchable
- Bonus #2 -
The Capture of
Jefferson Davis:
By Henry Harnden, 1898
105 pages, searchable
- Bonus #3 -
Prison Life of
Jefferson Davis:
By John J. Craven
Published 1866
672 pages, illustrated, searchable
- Bonus #4 -
Jefferson Davis
Genealogy
By William Whitsiit, 1908
17 pages, searchable
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Jefferson Finis
Davis
(June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American military officer, statesman
and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as the President of the Confederate
States of
America
for its entire history, 1861 to 1865.
A
West Point
graduate, Davis fought in the Mexican-American War as a colonel of a volunteer regiment, and
was the United States Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Both before and after his time in
the Pierce Administration, he served as a U.S. Senator representing the State of
Mississippi
. As a Senator he
argued against secession, but did agree that each state was sovereign and had an unquestionable right to secede from the
Union
.
In February, 1861, after he resigned from the
U.S.
Senate, he was selected provisional President of the
Confederate States of
America
; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November. During
his presidency,
Davis
took charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to stop the
larger, more powerful and better organized
Union
. His diplomatic efforts failed to gain recognition from any
foreign country, and he paid little attention to the collapsing Southern economy, printing more and more
paper money to cover the war's expenses. Historians have criticized Davis for being a much less effective war
leader than his nemesis Abraham Lincoln, which they attribute to Davis being overbearing, over controlling,
and overly meddlesome, as well as being out of touch with public opinion, and lacking support from a political
party (the Confederacy had no political parties). According to historian
Bell
I.
Wiley, the flaws in his personality
and temperament made him a failure as the highest political officer in the Confederacy. His preoccupation
with detail, inability to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, inability to get along with people who
disagreed with him, and his neglect of civil matters in favor of military were only a few of the shortcoming
s which worked against him.
After
Davis
was captured May 10, 1865, he was charged with treason, though not tried, and stripped of
his eligibility to run for public office. While not disgraced, he was displaced in Southern affection after the
war by its leading general, Robert E. Lee. However, Southerners empathized with his defiance, refusal to
accept defeat, and resistance to Reconstruction. Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him
a Civil War hero to Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the New South.
Jefferson Davis and his wife, Varina, are buried in the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia.
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