An honorable defeat
the last days of the Confederate government
1st ed.
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Publication
2001 - Harcourt, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
124,000 words, Guess
Page Count
496 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivehonorabledefeatl0000davi
- Internet Archivehonorabledefeatl0001davi
- ISBN-100151005648
- ISBN-139780151005642
- LibraryThing47939
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- Goodreads1933863
- Library of Congress Control Number00046143
- OCLC Control Number45002147
- Better World Books9780151005642
- Open LibraryOL6788140M
Classifications
- DDC973.7/1
- LCCE487 .D277 2001
- LCCE487.D277 2001
and 1 more
- LCCE 487 D277 2001
Description
"By February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of its 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 Abraham Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions: Jefferson Davis, autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost, and his secretary of war, General John C. Breckinridge, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he so loved.". "William C. Davis traces the astounding journey of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they fled 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 the two men as they continued their flight from their eventual fate."--BOOK JACKET.
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