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The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

Name: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
Author: Jefferson Davis

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.

“A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.”

Jefferson Davis book The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

“If the Confederacy falls, there should be written on its tombstone: Died of a theory.”

Jefferson Davis book The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, quoting a remark he had made in 1864.
1860s