DAVIS : The long surrender (fülszöveg)
The warnings from General Lee grew ever more urgent. "Flee without loss of a moment;" General Johnston implored. And so began the flight of Jefferson Davis and his Confederate Cabinet as they sought to continue the war and also to avoid capture during the closing days of the Confederacy.
The Long Surrender is a story of the Confederacy as only Burke Davis, one of America's foremost historians of the Civil War, can tell it. Burke Davis makes the reader eyewitness to history by following the Confederate leaders' race against time for personal survival as well as the dramatic capture of Jefferson Davis and his family and Davis' ignominious treatment by his captors — a cruel imprisonment which hardened Southern feeling against the North. As resentment in the South festered, slowly the image of a new hero began to emerge — Jefferson Davis, the martyr for the Lost Cause.
Here, too, are the narratives of scores of Southerners who fought under Confederate battle flags: some who refused to accept the conditions of surrender, some who achieved new prominence and fortune, and some who fled the country — like Jo Shelby, who marched his troops across the Rio Grande into Mexico.
The Long Surrender explores one of history's most misunderstood figures, Jefferson Davis, and one of history's most beloved, Robert E. Lee — and how profoundly their contrasting views of the New South affected modern American attitudes. It is a story of great men and small, of heroes and villains, set in a time of crisis unlike any other this country has seen.
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