1868 Confederate Jefferson Davis CSA War SECRETS Slavery Gettysburg Vicksburg

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
  • 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
  • xvii, [3], 13-645, [1]
• References: Nevins II, 36.
• Provenance: Bookplate – H. C. MacLaughlin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
  • Brown cloth
• Size: ~8.5in X 6in (21.5cm x 15cm)

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