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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Allen, Felicity, 1924- Jefferson Davis, unconquerable heart. Columbia : University of Missouri Press, c1999 (OCoLC)607467319 |
| Named Person: | Jefferson Davis |
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Felicity Allen |
| ISBN: | 0826212190 9780826212191 |
| OCLC Number: | 41977236 |
| Description: | xx, 809 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Capture -- Home -- School -- Army -- Marriage -- Plantation and Politics -- Fame -- United States Senator -- Victory in Defeat -- War Department Days -- Struggles for Health and the South -- President -- The Chief Executive -- Commander in Chief -- The Year of Our Lord 1863 -- Double-quick Downhill -- Prisoners -- An Unseen Hand -- Varina -- Sad Wandering -- The Cause -- The Hero -- Afterward -- J. E. Johnston to J. Davis, on Rank -- Proclamations by Davis for Days of Prayer -- Devotional Material Used by Davis in Prison. |
| Series Title: | Shades of blue and gray series. |
| Responsibility: | Felicity Allen. |
Abstract:
The author begins the story "with Davis's political imprisonment at the end of the Civil War and ... flashes back to his earlier life, interweaving Davis's private life as a schoolboy, a Mississippi planter, a husband, a father, and a political leader. She follows him from West Point through army service on the frontier, his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, his regimental command in the Mexican War, his service as U.S. secretary of war and senator, and his term as president of the Confederate States of America."--Jacket.
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