The Memorial Volume of Jefferson Davis (J. William Jones)

The Memorial Volume of Jefferson Davis

Reprint of the 1889 edition, in a beautiful clothbound volume.

The author published this volume as a tribute to the Confederate president after his death in 1887. It includes a biography of Davis interspersed with reprinted essays, articles, and speeches on his character and long service in government.

From the Author:

“Some years ago, my personal relations to President Davis, and my interest in and knowledge of events of Confederate History, induced an arrangement by which, with his full consent, I was to write the authorized Biography of our great Chief, and I had been diligently collecting material for that purpose. But on learning that he had at last yielded to a general desire, and was engaged at the time of his death in preparing his own Memoirs, and that since his death Mrs. Davis has decided to complete and publish the book, under her own supervision, I gave up, of course, any plan of my own which could possibly conflict with this Memoir.

It was suggested to me, however, that a volume which should briefly outline the Life and Character of the great Confederate Leader, and which should gather and preserve choice selections from the world’s splendid tribute to his memory, would be a prized souvenir in the homes of the people who loved him.”

Table of Contents

1. Tribute to the Leader of a “Lost Cause”
2. Autobiography of Jefferson Davis
3. Birth and Early Life
4. The College Boy
5. West Point Cadet
6. The Young Officer
7. In Retirement
8. His Entrance into Politics
9. The Mexican War
10. In the United States Senate
11. Secretary of War Under Pres. Franklin Pierce
12. Again in the United States Senate
13. His Opposition to “Squatter Sovereignty”
14. His Efforts to Preserve the Union
15. “Was Davis a Traitor?”
16. Beginning of the War
17. Three Years of Carnage
18. Close of the War – Capture and Imprisonment
19. His Life After the War
20. Analysis of His Character
21. His Sickness and Death
22. Virginia’s Tribute
23. Alabama’s Tribute
24. Georgia’s Tribute
25. Kentucky’s Tribute
26. Mississippi’s Tribute
27. Arkansas’s Tribute
28. Florida’s Tribute
29. Maryland’s Tribute
30. North Carolina’s Tribute
31. South Carolina’s Tribute
32. Tennessee’s Tribute
33. Texas’s Tribute
34. Miscellaneous
35. Address of Hon. J. A. P. Campbell Before the Mississippi Legislature