The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a book written by Jefferson Davis, who served as President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War.
“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, quoting a remark he had made in 1864.
1860s
