1868 Confederate 1^ed Jefferson Davis CSA Civil War Slavery Gettysburg Vicksburg

A scarce first edition printing of the life and career of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy by Frank H. 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: #40623

Price: $499

ALFRIEND, Frank H.

The Life of Jefferson Davis

Cincinnati; Chicago; [etc.]: Caxton Publishing House, National Publishing Co., P.M. Savery, J. Laws, and Co., 1868. First edition.

Details:

·       Collation: Complete

o   xvii, [1], 13-645, [1]

o   Includes engraved portrait frontispiece

·       References: Nevins II, p. 36.

·       Language: English

·       Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure

o   Brown cloth

·       Size: ~8.5in X 6.25in (21.5cm x 15.5cm)

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