1868 Confederate Jefferson Davis
CSA War SECRETS Slavery 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
o 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: #21786
Price: $499
ALFRIEND, Frank H
Life of Jefferson Davis
Cincinnati, Caxton Publishing House; Philadelphia, National Publishing
Co.; [etc.], 1868.
Details:
· Collation:
Complete with all pages
o xvii, [3], 13-645, [1]
· References:
Nevins II, p. 36.
· Provenance:
Bookplate – H. C. MacLaughlin
· Language:
English
· Binding: Hardcover;
tight and secure
o
Brown cloth
· Size: ~8.5in X 6in (21.5cm x 15cm)
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