A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis - ex-president of the Confederacy - began work on his monumental Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the "cause," and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis spent three...

David Eicher reveals the story of the political conspiracy, discord and dysfunction in Richmond that cost the South the Civil War. He shows how President Jefferson Davis fought not only with the Confederate House and Senate and with State Governor's but also with his own vice-president and secretary of state.

"In an alphabetical almanac format, describes the various actions taken in the Union and in the Confederacy to support the war effort. It explains the relative strengths of the two economies. It also examines the war's lasting impact on American politics"--Provided by publisher.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of 'Battle Cry of Freedom', a powerful new reckoning with Jefferson Davis as military commander of the Confederacy History has not been kind to Jefferson Davis. Many Americans of his own time and in later generations considered him an incompetent leader, not to mention a traitor. Not so, argues James M. McPherson. In 'Embattled Rebel', McPherson shows us that Davis might have been on the wrong side of history,...

"In Confederate Emancipation, Bruce Levine looks closely at Confederate plans to arm and free slaves. Throughout the book, Levine captures the voices of blacks and whites, wealthy planters and poor farmers, soldiers and officers, and newspaper editors and politicians from all across the South. In the process, he sheds light on such hot-button topics as what the Confederacy was fighting for, whether black southerners were willing to fight in large...