The Papers of Jefferson Davis: June 1865-December 1870

by Jefferson Davis

Being powerless to direct the current, I can only wait to see whither it runs, wrote Jefferson Davis to his wife, Varina, on October 11, 1865, five months after the victorious United States Army took him prisoner. Indeed, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807133418
• ISBN13: 9780807133415
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"