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Author
Publisher
Greenwood Press
Pub. Date
1973
Language
English
Description
This book was first published in 1955, and contains a selection of writings from Confederate women, found in news articles, letters, diaries, and other sources, which detail the Civil War as they witnessed it. Authors include Eliza Frances Andrews, Belle Boyd, Susan Bradford, Issa Desha Breckenridge, Mary Boykin Chestnut, Varina Howell Davis, Rose O'Neal Greenhow, and many others. Includes biographical notes on the authors, and some photographs.
Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 30
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
1919
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
"West Point graduate, secretary of war under President Pierce, U.S. senator from Mississippi - how was it that this statesman and patriot came to be president of the Confederacy, leading the struggle to destroy the United States? This is the question at the center of William Cooper's biography of Jefferson Davis. Basing his account on the massive archival record left by Davis and his family and associates, Cooper delves not only into the events of...
Author
Publisher
Blackbirch Press/Thomson
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Traces the life of Jefferson Davis, who graduated from West Point and served in the Army and the House of Representatives before becoming President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
Author
Publisher
University of Missouri Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
"Felicity Allen begins this work with Davis's political imprisonment at the end of the Civil War and flashes back to his earlier life, interweaving Davis's private life as a schoolboy, a Mississippi planter, a husband, a father, and a political leader. She follows him from West Point through army service on the frontier, his election to the U.S. House of Representatives, his regimental command in the Mexican War, his service as U.S. secretary of war...
Author
Publisher
University of North Carolina Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Confederate men marched off to battle, white women across the South confronted unaccustomed and unsought responsibilities: directing farms and plantations, providing for families, and supervising increasingly restive slaves. As southern women struggled "to do a man's business," they found themselves compelled to reconsider their most fundamental assumptions about their identities and about the larger meaning of womanhood. Drew Faust offers a...
14) Nine men in gray
Author
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Biography of United States Confederate Soldiers
16) Jefferson Davis
Author
Publisher
Chelsea House Publishers
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A biography of the man who was the president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War.
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