Jefferson Davis, unconquerable heart /
The author begins the story "with Davis's political imprisonment at the end of the Civil War and ... flashes back to his earlier life, interweaving Davis's private life as a schoolboy, a Mississippi planter, a husband, a father, and a political leader. She follows him from West Point...
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| Language: | English |
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Columbia :
University of Missouri Press,
1999
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| Series: | Shades of blue and gray series.
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Acknowledgments; Editorial Note; I Capture; II Home; I II School; IV Army; V Marriage; VI Plantation and Politics; VII Fame; V I II United States Senator; IX Victory in Defeat; X War Department Days; XI Struggles for Health and the South; XII President; XIII The Chief Executive; XIV Commander in Chief; XV The Year of Our Lord 1863; XVI Double- quick Downhill; XVII Prisoners; XVIII An Unseen Hand; XIX Varina; XX Sad Wandering; XXI The Cause; XXII The Hero; XXIII Afterward; Appendix A J.E. Johnston to J. Davis, on Rank; Appendix B Proclamations by Davis for Days of Prayer.
- Appendix C Devotional Material Used by Davis in PrisonPreface to the Notes; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
