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Volume 8 of The Papers of Jefferson Davis brings the Confederate president to the second year of the War Between the States and shows that during 1862 Davis was almost completely overwhelmed by military matters. Indeed, early that year, in an address to the Confederate Congress, he admitted that in trying to defend every part of its far-flung territory, the "Government had attempted more than it had power successfully to achieve." During 1862, Judah P. Benjamin was replaced as secretary of war by George W. Randolph, who was then succeeded by James A. Seddon. As the year advanced, Davis' relationships with certain key generals continued to sour. Chief among them were P.G.T. Beauregard, who was finally removed from his last significant command, and Joseph E. Johnston, whose fall from grace precipitated Robert E. Lee's rise to influence as commander of the Army of Northern Virginia. Lee proved to be as adept in communicating and coordinating plans with the president as Johnston had been inept. At the inconclusive Battle of Shiloh, Davis lost Albert Sidney Johnston, a trusted friend and the general he had most admired. Like Shiloh, many other campaigns of 1862 ended in stalemate and

Author

Jefferson Davis; Lynda Lasswell Crist; Mary Seaton Dix; Kenneth H Williams; Suzanne Scott Gibbs; Frank and Virginia Williams Collection of Lincolniana (Mississippi State University. Libraries)

Publisher

Louisiana State University Press; LSU Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780807158821

Subjects

History, Biography, Reference