The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

Description

Former President of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, offers his account of the Confederacy’s swift ascendance and downfall.

This historical book has no small measure of autobiography present, since the author Jefferson Davis was at the forefront of many of the events described on the pages. This text is thus the history of a chaotic period as presented by a political insider, published some sixteen years after the close of the Civil War hostilities – and the end of the Confederate government – in 1865.

The principle text is split into four parts: