Project Gutenberg 2013-10-19 Public domain in the USA. 67 Knight, Landon The Real Jefferson Davis Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.) "The Real Jefferson Davis" by Landon Knight is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book delves into the life and impact of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, highlighting his birth, education, political career, and military service. The author aims to portray a more nuanced understanding of Davis, countering portrayals that have historically depicted him as solely a villain or a traitor to the Union. At the start of the work, the author sets the stage by discussing the contrasting perceptions of Jefferson Davis following the Civil War. On one side, Northern sentiments treated him as an embodiment of treason, while on the other, Southern supporters idolized him as a martyr for their cause. Introducing Davis's origins, the author emphasizes his middle-class background and character traits shaped by his education and early life experiences. The opening portion establishes Davis's complexity, suggesting a deeper exploration of his motives and actions as it relates to the broader conflict and themes of secession and faithfulness to the Constitution. (This is an automatically generated summary.) file:///public/vhost/g/gutenberg/html/files/43979/43979-h/images/cover.jpg en Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 E456 Text Browsing: Biographies Browsing: History - American 207272 207277 2024-09-18T12:02:47.892126 2023-09-19T07:52:35.448480 text/html text/html 205018 2014-11-24T15:57:56 text/html; charset=utf-8 1397381 2014-11-24T15:58:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 1402905 2024-09-18T12:02:51.931109 application/epub+zip 1402409 2024-09-18T12:02:48.632101 application/epub+zip 140074 2024-09-18T12:02:48.237105 application/epub+zip 1492672 2024-09-18T12:02:54.877095 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 1447824 2024-09-18T12:02:51.513112 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 189303 2022-09-20T05:27:27.444538 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 175385 175221 2024-09-18T12:02:47.377104 2023-09-19T07:52:34.981478 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 175179 2014-11-24T15:57:52 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 64587 2014-11-24T15:58:42 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 175175 2014-11-24T15:57:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 64570 2014-11-24T15:58:42 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 19546 2024-09-18T12:02:55.020083 application/rdf+xml 18359 2024-09-18T12:02:48.328114 image/jpeg 2607 2024-09-18T12:02:48.282102 image/jpeg 1438929 2024-09-18T12:02:47.985155 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog