Author:Jefferson Davis

Jefferson Davis
(1808–1889)

Jefferson Davis

Works

• The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, 1881
• The Doctrine of State Rights, 1890
• A short history of the Confederate States of America, 1890
• “Zachary Taylor” in The Presidents of the United States, 1789-1914, 1914.

Speeches

• Speech at the Portland Serenade, 1858
• Speech at Belfast Encampment, 1858
• Speech to the Mississippi State Democratic Convention, 1859
• Inaugural Address, 1861
• Farewell Address to the Senate, 1861
• Message to the Second Session of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861
• Message to the Third Session of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861
• Message to the Fifth Session of the Provisional Confederate Congress, 1861
• Message to the First Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1862
• Message to the Second Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1862
• Message to the Third Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1863
• Message to the Fourth Session of the First Confederate Congress, 1863
• Message to the First Session of the Second Confederate Congress, 1864
• Message to the Second Session of the Second Confederate Congress, 1864

Letters

• Letter to Sarah Knox Taylor, 1834, upon his beau agreeing to marry him.
• Letter to J. D. Corse, 1867.
• Letter to Varina Howell Davis, 1862, to his wife about a recent visit home.
• Letter to Pope Pius IX, 1863, regarding the war.
• “Letter from President Davis,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 1, March 1876, to Hon. James Lyons, January 27, 1876, regarding the treatment of prisoners.
• “Patriotic Letters of Confederate Leaders,” in the Southern Historical Society Papers Volume 2, July 1876, reply to Robert Edward Lee regarding his offer of resignation.

Works about Davis

• A Southern Manifesto, as it appeared in the 1859 New York Tribune
• Inauguration of the President of the Southern Confederacy, as it appeared in the 1861 New York Times
• "Davis, Jefferson," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• Jefferson Davis Memorial Address, 1889 by Charles Minnigerode
• "Davis, Jefferson," in Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography, New York: D. Appleton and Co. (1900)
• "Jefferson Davis's Camel Experiment" by Walter Lynwood Fleming in Popular Science Monthly, 74 (February 1909)
• Jefferson Davis: A Judicial Estimate (1908) by Charles Betts Galloway
• "Davis, Jefferson," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Davis, Jefferson," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)