William C. Davis, An Honorable Defeat, 1st ed., Signed on Bookplate

Description

The Pulitzer Prize–nominated Civil War historian turns his pen to the last four months of the Confederacy: how, asks William C. Davis did Confederate president Jefferson Davis respond to Union victory?

A study of the final days of the Confederacy at the end of the Civil War focuses on two men–Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, and his affable, practical Secretary of War, General John C. Breckinridge–who played key roles in the Confederate government.

The gist of Davis’s analysis can be gleaned from his title—like many scholars of the Confederacy before him, Davis is interested in showing that the rebels were, above all, honorable. 

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William C. Davis. An Honorable Defeat. Boston: Harcourt, 2001. 1st ed. 496p., notes, index, d.j.