The Rise And Fall Of The Confederate Government

A decade after his release from Federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davis,ex-President of the Confederacy, the “Southern Lincoln,” popularly regarded as a martyr to the Confederate cause,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 p…