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1868 Confederate Jefferson Davis CSA War SECRETS Slavery Gettysburg Vicksburg

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1868 Confederate Jefferson Davis CSA War SECRETS Slavery Gettysburg Vicksburg

â€œI worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”

â€“ Jefferson Davis

A rare first edition printing of the life and career of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy by Frank Alfriend. This book primarily deals with Daviss military and political involvement in the Confederate States of America including:

Interaction with Abraham Lincoln

Davis speeches, advancement in Congress

Southern states in the Mexican War

Rights of states holding slaves from being admitted into Union

Returning runaway slaves to owners

Robert E. Lees military tactics at Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

Lees admission of tactical errors

According to Nevins, this book is

â€œA eulogistic attempt to vindicate the motives and conduct of the Southern leader; includes extensive quotations from Daviss letters and speeches.”

Item number: #20715

Price: $499

ALFRIEND, Frank H

Life of Jefferson Davis

Cincinnati, Caxton Publishing House; Philadelphia, National Publishing Co.; [etc.], 1868.

Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

xvii, [1], 13-645, [3]

References: Nevins II, p. 36.

Language: English

Binding: Hardcover; secure

Cloth

Size: ~8.5in X 6in (21.5cm x 15cm)

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