Written just after the war by a Virginian who knew many of the Confederate government’s leading figures, this long biography follows Jefferson Davis from his Mississippi youth, West Point and the Mexican War through the Senate to the presidency of the Confederacy. It dwells on his inaugurations, cabinet, war policy and the Richmond press.
A frankly partisan Southern document, valuable for how Davis’s defenders saw him in 1868 rather than as balanced history. Download the free EPUB.