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Title: Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government
Author: William C Davis
ISBN: 9780156007481
Publisher: Harvest Books
Published: 2002
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : February 1865: The end is clearly in sight for the Confederate government… An Honorable Defeat is the story of the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men: Jefferson Davis, autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and Gen. John Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save his shattered land. Noted historian, William Davis traces the astounding flight of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet from Richmond, Virginia, to a dingy room in a Havana hotel…
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