Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief

Authors

Joseph G. Dawson III

ISBN

9781594204975

Price

$32.95

Publisher

Penguin Press

Abstract

Reappraising Jefferson Davis as Confederate President

In his influential study, The Road to Appomattox (1956), historian Bell Irvin Wiley virtually leveled a bill of indictment against Jefferson Davis, asserting that as Confederate commander in chief Davis’s “performance in that cap....

DOI

10.31390/cwbr.17.1.21

Recommended Citation

Dawson, Joseph G. III (2015) "Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief," Civil War Book Review: Vol. 17 : Iss. 1 .
DOI: 10.31390/cwbr.17.1.21
Available at: https://repository.lsu.edu/cwbr/vol17/iss1/20