The photographic history of the Civil War - thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities (1911) (14759727081)

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Title: The photographic history of the Civil War : thousands of scenes photographed 1861-65, with text by many special authorities
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Miller, Francis Trevelyan, 1877-1959 Lanier, Robert S. (Robert Sampson), 1880-
Subjects: United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Pictorial works United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865
Publisher: New York : Review of Reviews Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN



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I THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY. WITH HIS WIFE THE FIRST OF SEVEN SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS This picture, made from an old daguerreotype, forms as true a document of Jefferson Davis humanside as his letter concerning Grant on page 290. Davis was horn in Kentucky the year before Lincoln.His college education began in that State. In 1S42 he entered West Point. Army service provedhis ability to command. In the Mexican War lie won distinction as colonel of the Firsl MississippiVolunteers by the famous reentering angle at Buena Vista. As Senator from Mississippi andSecretary of War under President Pierce, he became the accepted leader ot the Southern party intheir insistence on the doctrine of States rights. His unanimous election as President of the Con-federacy on Februarys, 1861, by the Congress at Montgomery. Alabama, was unsought. WhenLhe permanent government was established in 1862, he entered without opposition upon the sixyears term. When the stress of war t