The Papers of Jefferson Davis - June 1865-december 1870

Informationen zum Autor Lynda Lasswell Crist has been editor of The Papers of Jefferson Davis since 1979. Suzanne Scott Gibbs has been assistant editor since 2006. Brady L. Hutchison and Elizabeth Henson Smith were assistant editors for the Jefferson Davis Project from 2004 to 2006 and 2003 to 2004, respectively. Klappentext In the tumultuous years immediately after the Civil War, Davis found himself more acted upon than active, a dramatic change from his previous twenty years of public service to the United States as a major political figure and then to the Confederacy as its president and commander in chief. Volume 12 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis follows the former president of the Confederacy as he and his family fight to find their place in the world after the Civil War. A federal prisoner, incarcerated in a "living tomb" at Fort Monroe while the government decided whether, where, and by whom he should be tried for treason, Davis was initially allowed to correspond only with his wife and counsel. Released from prison after two hard years, he was not free from legal proceedings until 1869.

Product details

• Authors: Lynda Lasswell (EDT)/ Gibbs Crist, Jefferson Davis
• Assisted by: Lynda Lasswell Crist (Editor), Mary Seaton Dix (Editor), Suzanne Scott Gibbs (Editor), Brady L. Hutchison (Editor)
• Publisher: Louisiana state univ pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.10.2008
• EAN: 9780807133415
• ISBN: 978-0-8071-3341-5
• No. of pages: 696
• Series: Papers of Jefferson Davis; Papers of Jefferson Davis
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education