IV. First Appearance in Politics VIII. Becomes Secretary of War X. Still Hoped to Save the Union XI. President of the Confederacy XIV. The Bombardment of Sumter XVIII. The Quarrel with Johnston XXI. Butler's Infamous Order 28 XXIII. Blunders of the Western Army XXV. The Chief of a Heroic People XXVIII. General Lee's Surrender XXXI. Efforts to Execute Mr. Davis XXXII. Indictment of Mr. Davis XXXIII. Why Davis Was Not Tried for Treason XXXIV. Freedom, Reverses, Beauvoir THE REAL JEFFERSON DAVISJefferson Davis The Real By “Where once raged the storm of battle now bloom the gentle flowers of peace, and there where the mockingbird sings her night song to the southern moon, sweetly sleeps the illustrious chieftain whom a nation mourns. Wise in council, valiant in war, he was still greater in peace, and to his noble, unselfish example more than to any other one cause do we owe the indellible inscription over the arch of our union, ‘Esto perpetua.’” PUBLISHED BY Copyright, 1904, |