A Short History Of The Confederate States Of America
by Jefferson Davis /
2017 / English / EPUB
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A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir
written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in
1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along
the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.
A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir
written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in
1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along
the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi. The book
is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession
argument. In Davis' earlier work, The Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Government, he had written what is probably the most
thorough exegesis of the compact theory of the United States
Constitution in existence, devoting the first fifteen chapters of
the book to that topic. Fearful that his readers might not
understand, or might forget, he repeated the explanation every
second or third chapter after that. Still concerned that people
might not understand the compact theory of the Constitution, he
wrote A Short History of the Confederate States of America shortly
before his death. Jefferson Finis Davis (1808 – 1889) was an
American politician who served as the President of the Confederate
States from 1861 to 1865. He was a member of the Democratic Party
who represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the
United States House of Representatives prior to becoming president
of the Confederacy. He was the 23rd United States Secretary of War,
serving under U.S. President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857.
The book
is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession
argument. In Davis' earlier work, The Rise and Fall of the
Confederate Government, he had written what is probably the most
thorough exegesis of the compact theory of the United States
Constitution in existence, devoting the first fifteen chapters of
the book to that topic. Fearful that his readers might not
understand, or might forget, he repeated the explanation every
second or third chapter after that. Still concerned that people
might not understand the compact theory of the Constitution, he
wrote A Short History of the Confederate States of America shortly
before his death. Jefferson Finis Davis (1808 – 1889) was an
American politician who served as the President of the Confederate
States from 1861 to 1865. He was a member of the Democratic Party
who represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the
United States House of Representatives prior to becoming president
of the Confederacy. He was the 23rd United States Secretary of War,
serving under U.S. President Franklin Pierce from 1853 to 1857.
