Jefferson Davis; the unreal and the real, by Robert McElroy ...
Material type: TextPublication details: New York, London, Harper & Brothers, 1937.Description: 2 v. fronts., illus. (facsim.) ports. 25 cmSubject(s): DDC classification:- 923.273
- E467.1.D26 M24
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Paged continuously.
"First edition."
"A critical bibliography": vol II, p. 699-759.
WAR, NEWBERY,
V. 1. "Cleanly bred, machinely crammed" -- Army days -- Plantation days -- Six months in Congress -- The Mexican War -- In the Senate -- Contesting the Compromise of 1850 -- Secretary of War -- The Senate again -- The election of 1860 -- Secession of South Carolina -- Farewell to the Senate -- Drafted into a presidency -- "The drumming guns that have no doubts" -- "The eighty days" -- Manassas and its aftermath -- Dark days of '62 -- Emancipation proclamation -- v. 2. Vicksburg and Gettysburg -- Habeas Corpus -- Futile peace movements -- Hampton Roads conference -- The fall of Richmond -- Collapse of the Confederacy -- Johnston's surrender -- "Sartor Resartus" : the arrest and the clothes -- The scapegoat -- Second year of prison life -- Why Davis was never tried -- Hope deferred -- "Beauvoir" and peace, and conflict -- "By reason of strength."