Isbn: 9780151005642 - an honorable defeat: the last days of the confederate government (14 Ergebnisse)

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Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. xiv, [2], 496 pages. Endpaper map. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Using original research, the author narrates the futile quarrels of two men as they continued their flight from their eventual fate. The result is a tale full of physical adventure and battle that sweeps from the Virginia to a dingy room in a Havana hotel. William Charles "Jack" Davis (born 1946) is an American historian who was a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the former director of programs at that school's Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. Specializing in the American Civil War, Davis has written more than 40 books on that subject and other aspects of early southern U.S. history, such as the Texas Revolution. He is the only three-time winner of the Jefferson Davis Prize for Confederate history and was awarded the Jules and Frances Landry Award for Southern History. His book Lone Star Rising has been called "the best one-volume history of the Texas revolution yet written". For many years, he was editor and publisher of Civil War Times Illustrated. In 2000, Davis became a professor at Virginia Tech, where he served as director of programs for the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies. He retired from this position in 2013. In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time to achieve their own differing visions for the South: Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and the practical and warm General John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he loved so dearly. Pulitzer Prize nominee William C. Davis traces the astounding flight of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they flee south from Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of Davis and Breckinridge as they try to evade bands of Northern pursuers and describes their eventual--and separate--captures. The result is a rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat that is exciting and highly readable, a charged tale full of physical adventure and political battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to Havana. Derived from a Kirkus review: A skillfully rendered account of the closing hours of the Civil War. Long before Lee surrendered his army to Grant at Appomattox, writes historian Davis, the leaders of the Confederacy knew that their cause was doomed to fail. Jefferson Davis's vice president, Alexander H. Stephens, had given up hope as early as 1862 and simply went home to Georgia, while others took longer to conclude that Davis's prosecution of the war could lead only to defeatespecially after Davis resolved to fight to the last man. By 1865, some dissidents within the Confederate government were calling for his violent overthrow and the installation of Lee as 'interim dictator.' Others, notably Davis's secretary of war, Kentuckian John C. Breckinridge, believed that the North was so tired of waging war that it could be persuaded to come to a settlementone that might even allow the Southerners to retain their slaves and political power. Breckinridge could not convince Jefferson Davis to accept this alternative, but he loyally accompanied the president as Davis attempted to flee from the advancing Union armies in order to continue the war from the safety of Texas or Mexico. In the end, Davis remarks, the North scarcely knew what to do with the captive leaders, for "the Constituti.…