An honorable defeat : the last days of the Confederate government / William C. Davis.
2001
E487 .D277 2001 (Mapit)
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Title
An honorable defeat : the last days of the Confederate government / William C. Davis.
Author
Davis, William C., 1946-
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
0151005648
9780151005642
0156007487
9780156007481
9780151005642
0156007487
9780156007481
Published
New York, New York : Harcourt, ©2001.
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
Description
xiv, 496 pages, [16] of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Call Number
E487 .D277 2001
Alternate Call Number
15.85
Dewey Decimal Classification
973.7/1
Summary
"By February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of its army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions: Jefferson Davis, autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost, and his secretary of war, General John C. Breckinridge, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he so loved ... William C. Davis traces the astounding journey of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they fled Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of the two men as they continued their flight from their eventual fate."--Jacket.
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Map on lining papers.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 459-478) and index.
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Table of Contents
Introduction: Ends and beginnings
"The responsibility of action"
"Let it not end in a farce"
"A very troublesome elephant"
"The shadows of misfortune"
"I cannot feel like a beaten man"
"We are falling to pieces"
"All Is lost but our honor"
"The Confederate government Is dissolved"
"This, I suppose, Is the end of the Confederacy"
"This maze of enemies"
"The last hope Is gone"
"We all felt profoundly grateful"
Aftermath: "When all these wounds are healed."
"The responsibility of action"
"Let it not end in a farce"
"A very troublesome elephant"
"The shadows of misfortune"
"I cannot feel like a beaten man"
"We are falling to pieces"
"All Is lost but our honor"
"The Confederate government Is dissolved"
"This, I suppose, Is the end of the Confederacy"
"This maze of enemies"
"The last hope Is gone"
"We all felt profoundly grateful"
Aftermath: "When all these wounds are healed."