By: Davis, William C.
Price: $6.86
Publisher:
San Diego, CA, Harcourt, Inc.: 2001
Inscription: Signed by Author
Seller ID: 2173
ISBN: 0156007487
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Very Good
In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled to achieve their own differing visions for the South: Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and the practical and warm General John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered re...
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