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A decade after his release from federal prison, the 67-year-old Jefferson Davisex-president of the Confederacy, the ”Southern Lincoln,” popularly thought to be a martyr to the Confederate causestarted work on his monumental Upward thrust and Fall of the Confederate Government. Motivated partially by his deep-rooted antagonism toward his enemies (both the Northern victors and his Southern detractors), partially by his continuing obsession with the cause,” and partially by his desperate pecuniary and physical condition, Davis devoted three years and extensive research to the writing of what he termed ”an historical sketch of the events which preceded and attended the struggle of the Southern states to handle their existence and their rights as sovereign communities.” The outcome was once a perceptive two-volume chronicle, covering the birth, life, and death of the Confederacy, from the Missouri Compromise in 1820, during the tumultuous events of the Civil War, to the readmission of the Southern states to the U.S. Congress within the late 1860s. Supplemented with a new historical foreword by the Pulitzer Prizewinning James M. McPherson, The Upward thrust and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume I belongs within the library of any individual interested within the root causes, the personalities, and the events of The united states’s greatest war.