Toombs was a fiery Georgia lawyer and legislator who served in Congress through the Compromise of 1850 and the sectional crisis, became the Confederacy’s first Secretary of State and a brigadier general, and refused to seek a pardon after the war. Stovall, a Georgia journalist, follows his family, career and speeches in admiring detail.
A sympathetic Southern biography written in 1892, whose views on slavery and secession are those of its author’s time and place. Download the free EPUB.