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1868 Jefferson Davis CSA War SECRETS Slavery
1868 Jefferson Davis CSA War SECRETS Slavery
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1868 Jefferson Davis CSA War SECRETS Slavery Confederate Gettysburg Vicksburg



“I 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.”

– 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 Davis’s 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. Lee’s military tactics at Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg

Lee’s admission of tactical errors



According to Nevins, this book is

“A eulogistic attempt to vindicate the motives and conduct of the Southern leader; includes extensive quotations from Davis’s letters and speeches.”



Item number: #6700

Price: $499



ALFRIEND, Frank H



Life of Jefferson Davis



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



Details:

Collation: Complete with all pages

[xvii], [13]-645

References: Nevins II, p. 36.

Language: English

Binding: Cloth; tight and secure

Size: ~8.5in X 6in (22cm x 15cm)



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