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Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War .
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.
There are 706 pages. [3]According to Herman Hattaway of University of Missouri–Kansas City, Civil War coverage and coverage of pre-Civil War affairs make up around 48% and 42% of the book, and the time Davis was imprisoned is covered in 19 pages. [4]
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified ...
Photograph of Jefferson Davis by W. W. Washburn (1888) The following is a list of scholarly resources related to Jefferson Davis.. Due to the large number of biographies of Davis published by 1992, Emory M. Thomas of the University of Georgia made a parody bumper sticker stating "Honk if you're not writing a biography of Jefferson Davis."
Wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell, 1845. Jefferson Davis was a 35-year-old widower when he and Varina met. His first wife, Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer Zachary Taylor while he was in the Army, had died of malaria three months after their wedding in 1835. Davis mourned her and had been reclusive in ...
When Jefferson Davis died on December 6, 1889, his funeral was a major event in the United States, receiving front-page attention throughout the country. By the time of his death, Davis had become a transitional figure. He was the embodiment of the Old South, who lived long enough to be seen as emblematic of the New South.
Its subject is Varina Davis. It was the first biography of Davis written for an academic purpose, [1] and the first written by a historian who adopted the job as a career. [2] Additionally, LeeAnn Whites of the University of Missouri, Columbia, described it as "the first professional biography" of the subject. [3]