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Author : James R. Arnold
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Jeff Davis's Own written by James R. Arnold and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2000-09-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents
Author : George Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (166 download)
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Jeff. Davis written by George Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : McArone
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 31 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Jeff. Davis written by McArone and published by . This book was released on 1865 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : American Breeders Association of Jacks and Jennets
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book American Jack Stock Stud Book written by American Breeders Association of Jacks and Jennets and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William J. Cooper
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780375725425
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (254 download)
Download or read book Jefferson Davis, American written by William J. Cooper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a distinguished historian of the America South comes this thoroughly human portrait of the complex man at the center of our nation's most epic struggle. Jefferson Davis initially did not wish to leave the Union-as the son of a veteran of the American Revolution and as a soldier and senator, he considered himself a patriot. William J. Cooper shows us how Davis' initial reluctance turned into absolute commitment to the Confederacy. He provides a thorough account of Davis' life, both as the Confederate President and in the years before and after the war. Elegantly written and impeccably researched, Jefferson Davis, American is the definitive examination of one of the most enigmatic figures in our nation's history. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Author : McArone McArone
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ISBN 13 : 9781332904730
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Life and Adventures of Jeff Davis (Classic Reprint) written by McArone McArone and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-25 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life and Adventures of Jeff Davis He commtted this unpardon able sin in Chris tian county, Ken tucky, a district that has p r o daood, probably, as my horse thieves as any other part of the t e r r a qu e o u s globe. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Jeff Duty
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692343616
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (436 download)
Download or read book In the Line of Duty written by Jeff Duty and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the Line of Duty" is the autobiography of Davis Duty, a man from a small town in Arkansas who has led a truly fascinating life. Completely blind from five years old, Davis was determined never to accept his sightlessness as a handicap. He was the first blind child to be mainstreamed in Arkansas public schools and acquired his first Seeing Eye guide dog when he was 17. He earned a Fulbright Scholarship to study at the London School of Economics, where his guide dog's mandatory six-month rabies quarantine captured the heart of the English people and the international press. After graduating from law school, Davis worked under Robert Kennedy in the US Attorney General's Office during the Kennedy Administration in Washington, DC. Upon marrying, he returned to his hometown to join his father in the family law firm, was elected City Attorney and Municipal Judge, and and persuaded the US Supreme Court to permit guide dogs. He was appointed to a Federal judge position in the Social Security Administration and moved to Phoenix, Arizona, where he raised his family. He eventually returned to private law practice in Arkansas. Davis' rich memoir includes cherished family anecdotes from his childhood during World War II, his adolescence in the 1950s, his four marriages, and family life with his two children. His own story is expanded with a genealogical overview of both sides of his family. Each aspect of Davis' amazing life is described with both great humor and serious introspection. Bonus material exploring his political and theological views and several short stories is included. Rich with over 200 photos spanning a hundred years, this book brings to life a fascinating man so that his family, descendants, and the wider world will know and remember him.
Author : Jefferson Davis
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807158739
Total Pages : 610 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Jefferson Davis written by Jefferson Davis and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1985-10 with total page 610 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Seaton Dix, Associate Editor The fifth volume of The Papers of Jefferson Davis presents 9,000 of the approximately 21,000 known Davis letters, papers, and speeches from the years 1853 through 1855, when Davis served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce. Most of the documents are included in summary form in an extensive calendar; 93 are published in full with annotation. Well prepared for the War Department position by his military education and experience, Davis was already known as a champion of the army and West Point from his years in Congress. As secretary, Davis administered a department of eight bureaus and a military establishment spread thinly from coast to coast. An increase and reorganization of the army along with the establishment of new posts became top priorities as a tide of settlers encroached in Indian lands in the Mexican cession and Far West. Davis also supervised army engineering projects as varied as the Capitol extension, military roads, and river and harbor improvements. The curriculum of the Military Academy, new weapons and armaments development, the activities of the Crimea commission, the Pacific railroad surveys, and the camel expedition -- all commanded his minute attention .Despite the burdens of office, Davis maintained a lively interest in the issues of the day, among them Latin American filibustering, the purchase of Cuba, states' rights, slavery, and the conflict in Kansas. The wide attention accorded his travels and speeches brought national prominence to him and speculation about his future candidacy for governor, a return to the Senate, the vice-presidency, and even the presidency. Personal correspondence includes letters that touch on Davis' long estrangement from his brother, the death of his first child, persistent health problems, and relationships with friends and family. Much of hiss official correspondence, especially several angry exchanges with army officers, reveals even more about Davis' personality. In addition to the documents published in full and calendared, an appendix includes over one hundred recently discovered personal and political items dates from 1838 through 1852, before Davis' selection as secretary of war.
Author : Ulysses S. Grant
Publisher : Digital Scanning Inc
ISBN 13 : 1582181071
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (821 download)
Download or read book Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant Volume 2 of 2 written by Ulysses S. Grant and published by Digital Scanning Inc. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ulysses S. Grant was an outstanding military figure and the savior of the Union during the Civil War, as well as the 18th President of the United States from 1869-77. He was an author of unusual ability and his Memoirs are widely regarded as one of the great books written in the English language. He was also a complex individual with uncommon virtues. Born in 1822, Grant was the son of an Ohio tanner. He went to West Point rather against his will and graduated in the middle of his class. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Grant was appointed by the governor to command an unruly volunteer regiment, quickly rising to the rank of brigadier general of volunteers. In February 1862, he took Fort Henry and attacked Fort Donelson. When the Confederate commander asked for terms, Grant replied, "No terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted". The Confederates surrendered, and President Lincoln promoted Grant to major general of volunteers. At Shiloh in April, Grant fought one of the bloodiest battles in the West and came out less well. Lincoln fended off demands for his removal by saying, "I can't spare this man -- he fights". For his next major objective, Grant then maneuvered and fought skillfully to win Vicksburg, the key city on the Mississippi, cutting the Confederacy in two. Then he broke the Confederate hold on Chattanooga. Lincoln appointed him General-in-Chief in March 1864. Grant directed Sherman to drive through the South while he himself, with the Army of the Potomac, pinned down General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia. Finally, on April 9, 1865, at Appomattox Court House, Lee surrendered. Grant wrote out magnanimous terms of surrender thatwould prevent treason trials. As President, Grant presided over the Government much as he had run the Army. Indeed he brought part of his Army staff to the White House. After retiring from the Presidency, Grant became a partner in a financial firm, which went bankrupt. About that time he learned that he had cancer of the throat. He started writing his recollections to pay off his debts and provide for his family, racing against death to produce these Memoirs. Soon after completing the last page, in 1885, he died.
Author : Jeff Davis
Publisher : McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Rozelle written by Jeff Davis and published by McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 2008 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the powerful commissioner who masterminded the Super Bowl and changed professional sports forever Pete Rozelle built a sports empire. He invented the Super Bowl, tripled the size of the NFL, and turned football into a billion-dollar business. Before he came along, Monday was just another weeknight. Rozelle was the archetype of the modern sports commissioner and one of Time magazine’s 100 most important people of the 20th century. In Rozelle, critically acclaimed biographer Jeff Davis goes deep into the extraordinary life of this legendary figure. Showcasing exclusive interviews with more than a hundred of Rozelle’s family members, colleagues, admirers, and detractors, Davis weaves a compelling narrative fabric that masterfully spans Rozelle’s life from childhood through his days as an executive with the L. A. Rams, to his triumphs as commissioner of the NFL and his everlasting impact on the American way of sport.
Author : Joan E. Cashin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674029267
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)
Download or read book First Lady of the Confederacy written by Joan E. Cashin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
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Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Connecticut Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clayton E. Jewett
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080714357X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Battlefield and Beyond written by Clayton E. Jewett and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2012-05-16 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Battlefield and Beyond leading Civil War historians explore a tragic part of our nation's history though the lenses of race, gender, leadership, politics, and memory. The essays in this strong collection shed new light on the defining issues of the Civil War era. Orville Vernon Burton, Leonne M. Hudson, and Daniel E. Sutherland delve into the master-slave relationship, the role of blacks in the army, and the nature of southern violence. Herman Hattaway, Paul D. Escott, and Judith F. Gentry offer innovative perspectives on the influential leadership of President Jefferson Davis, Lieutenant-General Stephen D. Lee, and General Edmund Kirby Smith. Other contributors consider politicians and the public: Michael J. Connolly and Clayton E. Jewett investigate how despotism contributed to Confederate defeat; David E. Kyvig and Alan M. Kraut examine the war's impact on the Constitution and racial relationships with Jews; and Bertram Wyatt-Brown, Kenneth Nivison, and Emory M. Thomas discuss the critical function of memory in our understanding of Lincoln's assassination. The essays in The Battlefield and Beyond consider the fundamental issue of the Confederacy's failure and military defeat but also expose our nation's continuing struggles with race, individual rights, terrorism, and the economy. Collectively, this distinguished group of historians reveals that 150 years after the nation's most defining conflict its consequences still resonate.
Author : Ethan S. Rafuse
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351147781
Total Pages : 653 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)
Download or read book The American Civil War written by Ethan S. Rafuse and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The largest and most destructive military conflict between the Napoleonic Wars and the First World War, the American Civil War has inspired some of the best and most intriguing scholarship in the field of United States history. This volume offers some of the most important work on the war to appear in the past few decades and offers compelling information and insights into subjects ranging from the organization of armies, historiography, the use of intelligence and the challenges faced by civil and military leaders in the course of America‘s bloodiest war.
Author : Brian K. Burton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253339638
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Extraordinary Circumstances written by Brian K. Burton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McClellan's defeat meant that his dream of bringing the United States together as it was before the outbreak of the war was gone forever, and the country's very nature changed as a result."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Jefferson Davis
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 1588363783
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings written by Jefferson Davis and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2004-08-10 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jefferson Davis is one of the most complex and controversial figures in American political history (and the man whom Oscar Wilde wanted to meet more than anyone when he made his tour of the United States). Elected president of the Confederacy and later accused of participating in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, he is a source of ongoing dissension between northerners and southerners. This volume, the first of its kind, is a selected collection of his writings culled in large part from the authoritative Papers of Jefferson Davis, a multivolume edition of his letters and speeches published by the Louisiana State University Press, and includes thirteen documents from manuscript collections and one privately held document that have never before appeared in a modern scholarly edition. From letters as a college student to his sister, to major speeches on the Constitution, slavery, and sectional issues, to his farewell to the U.S. Senate, to his inaugural address as Confederate president, to letters from prison to his wife, these selected pieces present the many faces of the enigmatic Jefferson Davis. As William J. Cooper, Jr., writes in his Introduction, “Davis’s notability does not come solely from his crucial role in the Civil War. Born on the Kentucky frontier in the first decade of the nineteenth century, he witnessed and participated in the epochal transformation of the United States from a fledgling country to a strong nation spanning the continent. In his earliest years his father moved farther south and west to Mississippi. As a young army officer just out of West Point, he served on the northwestern and southwestern frontiers in an army whose chief mission was to protect settlers surging westward. Then, in 1846 and 1847, as colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment, he fought in the Mexican War, which resulted in 1848 in the Mexican Cession, a massive addition to the United States of some 500,000 square miles, including California and the modern Southwest. As secretary of war and U.S. senator in the 1850s, he advocated government support for the building of a transcontinental railroad that he believed essential to bind the nation from ocean to ocean.”
