This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.Jefferson Finis Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in a log cabin in Christian County, Kentucky, the youngest of ten children born to Samuel Emory Davis and Jane Cook Davis. His birth in Kentucky placed him in the same state where Abraham Lincoln had been born less than a year earlier, creating one of history's remarkable coincidences that would later see these two men become adversaries in America's greatest crisis. The Davis family repre...

One of the bloodiest conflicts ever to take place on American soil, the Civil War pitted brother against brother as North and South fought to secure their futures. Confederate president Jefferson Davis’s 1881 memoir, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a history of the Confederate States of America and a vindication of the Southern cause.While Rise and Fall disappointed Davis’s hopes of restoring his fortune, destroyed during and after the war, it w...

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis provides a historical account of the Confederate States of America during the tumultuous era of the American Civil War. Serving as the President of the Confederacy, Davis offers a firsthand perspective on the complex political and moral justifications that led to the formation of the Southern states and the subsequent Civil War. In this thought-provoking work, Davis draws parallels between the events that shaped the Confede...

A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi.The book is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession argument. In Davis' earlier work, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, he had written what is probably the most thorough exegesis o...

This volume, the sixth in a nine-volume series about the Civil War, provides an important insight into how Jefferson Davis viewed the rise and death of the Confederacy.Also published by Aftermath Publishing:The Civil War SeriesLincoln and DavisFive Civil War Generals: Grant, Lee, Longstreet, Sherman, and SheridanLee and GrantA Treasury of Civil War FictionWomen in the Civil warThe Rise and Fall of the Confeder...

The Complete Works of Jefferson DavisJefferson Finis Davis was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War.This collection includes the following:Speeches of the Honorable Jefferson Davis 1858The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

Last Train to Nowhere: A Detective’s Desperate Quest to Unravel the Secrets of a Vanished Young WomanIn a forgotten town where shadows linger and silence holds secrets, a haunting mystery awaits. "Last Train to Nowhere" follows Jack, a disillusioned detective on a quest for redemption after a case gone wrong. When he arrives at a desolate train station, he learns of a young woman who vanished without a trace after boarding the last train, leaving behind only a cryptic note that hin...

Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part fro...

The object of this work has been from historical data to show that the Southern States had rightfully the power to withdraw from a Union into which they had, as sovereign communities, voluntarily entered; that the denial of that right was a violation of the letter and spirit of the compact between the States; and that the war waged by the Federal Government against the seceding States was in disregard of the limitations of the Constitution, and destructive of the principles of the Declarat...

As a career civil servant in the United States government during much of his adult life, Jefferson Davis was a natural choice to be elected President of the seceding Southern states in early 1861. Whether the Civil War would have ended any differently with someone else in charge of the Confederacy will never be known, but Davis had a tumultuous presidency. History has accorded Abraham Lincoln a spot in the pantheon of American politics for the manner in which he steered the Union to victor...

As a career civil servant in the United States government during much of his adult life, Jefferson Davis was a natural choice to be elected President of the seceding Southern states in early 1861. Whether the Civil War would have ended any differently with someone else in charge of the Confederacy will never be known, but Davis had a tumultuous presidency. History has accorded Abraham Lincoln a spot in the pantheon of American politics for the manner in which he steered the Union to victor...

Written early in Tate's career, this study of the Confederacy's fallen leader is highly critical of his flaws yet ultimately sympathetic to the Southern cause.