Jefferson Davis, Confederate President

by Hattaway, Herman; Beringer, Richard E.

• ISBN13: 9780700611706
• ISBN10: 0700611703
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-05-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of Kansas

Summary

A clearly written, compelling account of the Jefferson Davis presidency takes a fresh look at the diplomatic, domestic, and military affairs that consumed this embattled man during his tumultuous tenure as president of the Confederacy. (Biography)

Author Biography

Herman Hattaway is professor of history and religious studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and an ordained Anglican priest.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Acknowledgments	xiii
Prologue: A Momentous Step	xv
Maps	xxii
What Manner of Man?	1	(18)
The Establishment of Government	19	(17)
Provisional Administration	36	(12)
To Sumter	48	(23)
Plates: Persons
The Wait for Land Battles	71	(27)
In the Aftermath of First Manassas	98	(25)
Forging the Resources of War	123	(23)
Northern Power Emerges	146	(19)
Escalating Degrees of Warfare	165	(24)
Plates: Things
The Threat of Emancipation	189	(28)
Union Power Affirmed	217	(17)
The Meaning of the War	234	(33)
Plates: Places
War Leadership in Supreme Test	267	(34)
The Great Hope: That Lincoln Be Denied Reelection	301	(34)
The Winter of Great Discontent	335	(23)
The Battlefield Realities in 1865	358	(26)
The End in Virginia	384	(17)
The Pseudo-Confederacy	401	(30)
Plates: Art and Community
Epilogue: The Postwar Davis	431	(4)
Appendix: Barber's Model of Presidential Leadership	435	(8)
Notes	443	(66)
Bibliography	509	(16)
Index	525