Jefferson Davis, Confederate president
By: Herman Hattaway and Richard E. Beringer.
Contributors: Beringer, Richard E., 1933-
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 542
Subjects: Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.; Presidents -- Confederate States of America -- Biography.; Statesmen -- United States -- Biography.; Confederate States of America -- Politics and government.; United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Campaigns.; Confederate States of America -- Biography.
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [509]-523) and index.
Table of contents: value: Machine generated contents note: 1. What Manner of Man? 1; value: 2. The Establishment of Government 19; value: 3. Provisional Administration 36; value: 4. To Sumter 48; value: Plates: Persons; value: 5. The Wait for Land Battles 71; value: 6. In the Aftermath of First Manassas 98; value: 7. Forging the Resources of War 123; value: 8. Northern Power Emerges 146; value: 9. Escalating Degrees of Warfare 165; value: Plates: Things; value: 10. The Threat of Emancipation 189; value: 11. Union PowerAffirmed 217; value: 12. The Meaning of the War 234; value: Plates: Places; value: 13. War Leadership in Supreme Test 267; value: 14. The Great Hope: That Lincoln Be Denied Reelection 301; value: 15. The Winter of Great Discontent 335; value: 16. The Battlefield Realities in 1865 358; value: 17. The End in Virginia 384; value: 18. The Pseudo-Confederacy 401; value: Plates: Art and Community.