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- Description
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (lvii, 616 pages) :) : illustrations, map, colored portrait.
- Summary
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Papers of Jefferson Davis Volume 14, 1880-1899 (Online)
- Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Alternative Title
- Papers of Jefferson Davis Volume 14, 1880-1899 (Online)
- Subject
- Note
- Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-572) and index.
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- Access restricted to authorized users.
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- Description based on print version record.
- OCLC
- ssj0001502603
- Author
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
- Title
The Papers of Jefferson Davis Volume 14, 1880-1899 / 1880-1889 / [electronic resource] : Lynda Lasswell Crist, editor ; Suzanne Scott Gibbs, assistant editor ; introduction by William C. Davis.
- Imprint
Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015 (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
Baton Rouge [Louisiana] : Louisiana State University Press, 2015. (Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2015)
- Series
Book collections on Project MUSE.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 529-572) and index.
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Access restricted to authorized users.
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Davis, William C., 1946-
Gibbs, Suzanne Scott.
Crist, Lynda Lasswell.
Project Muse.
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Print version: (DLC) 91011198 9780807159125