The Life of Jefferson Davis
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The Life of Jefferson Davis is by Frank H. Alfriend, whose title page describes him as Late Editor of The Southern Literary Messenger. The preface avows, with unfeigned candor, a painful sense of the inadequate manner in which the design has been carried out. The text says the tastes and habits formed during those eight years of retirement have adhered to Mr. Davis in his subsequent life.
The text says that at this time, probably, no state in the Union, of equal population, excelled Mississippi in the number and distinction of her brilliant politicians. The text speaks of the enormous preparations of the enemy, with monster armies numbering, in December, 1861, more than six hundred thousand men. The text calls the Richmond Examiner the ablest and most influential journal of the South and says it had early evinced a disposition hostile to President Davis and his administration.
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- Frank H. Alfriend
- Pages
- 382
- Language
- English
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- American Civil War
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