The Civil War
Subtitle: Fredericksburg to Meridian, Vol. 2
Publisher: The Bodley Head Ltd
Published: March 1991
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1004
ISBN-13: 9780370316536
Subjects: American history: c 1800 to c 1900; Civil war; Land forces & warfare; USA; c 1800 to c 1900
First sentence: "AFTER AN ABSENCE OF NEARLY TWO YEARS," Jefferson Davis told the legislators assembled under the golden dome of his home-state capitol on the day after Christmas, 1862-twenty months and two weeks, to the day, since the guns of Charleston opened fire on Sumter to inaugurate the civil war no one could know was not yet halfway over-"I again find myself among those who, from the days of my childhood, have ever been the trusted objects of my affection, those for whose good I have ever striven and whose interests I have sometimes hoped I may have contributed to subserve....I left you to assume the duties which have devolved upon me as the representative of the new Confederacy.