"Fiction Distorting Fact": The Prison Life, Annotated by Jefferson Davis

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Mercer University Press, 1987 - 168 páginas
This new study of 'Prison life' places the work and these two years in proper perspective. Davis was imprisoned and Craven was assigned to be his physician, not much more than that should be accepted as fact. This edition reproduces Davis's annotations and comments from his personal copy, along with editorial notes and explanations. It also provides a clear, objective description of Davis's life at Fort Monroe, based on evidence and Davis's own letters from prison.

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PREFACE
vii
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix
INTRODUCTION
xi
CHAPTER 1
1
CHAPTER 2
5
CHAPTER 3
10
CHAPTER 4
15
CHAPTER 5
20
CHAPTER 13
74
CHAPTER 14
80
CHAPTER 15
85
CHAPTER 16
90
CHAPTER 17
94
CHAPTER 18
102
CHAPTER 19
108
CHAPTER 20
114

CHAPTER 6
26
CHAPTER 7
32
CHAPTER 8
37
CHAPTER 9
43
CHAPTER 10
54
CHAPTER 11
60
CHAPTER 12
68
CHAPTER 21
119
CHAPTER 22
128
CHAPTER 23
136
APPENDIX
141
BIBLIOGRAPHY
151
INDEX
165
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