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An Honorable Defeat (Record no. 3996)

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010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER
LC control number 46143
020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780151005642
024 ## - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 45002147
050 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number E487
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 973.71
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name William C. Davis
245 1# - TITLE STATEMENT
Title An Honorable Defeat
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 512 pages
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. In February 1865, the end was clearly in sight for the Confederate government. Lee's defeat at Gettysburg had dashed the hopes of the Confederate army, and Grant's victory at Vicksburg had cut the South in two. An Honorable Defeat is the story of the four months that saw the surrender of the South and the assassination of Lincoln by Southern partisans. It is also the story of two men, antagonists yet political partners, who struggled during this time to achieve their own differing visions for the South: Jefferson Davis, the autocratic president of the Confederate States, who vowed never to surrender whatever the cost; and the practical and warm General John C. Breckinridge, Secretary of War, who hoped pragmatism would save the shattered remnants of the land he loved so dearly.Pulitzer Prize nominee William C. Davis traces the astounding flight of these men, and the entire Confederate cabinet, as they flee south from Richmond by train, then by mule, then on foot. Using original research, he narrates, with dramatic style and clear historical accuracy, the futile quarrels of Davis and Breckinridge as they try to evade bands of Northern pursuers and describes their eventual--and separate--captures. The result is a rich canvas of a time of despair and defeat that is exciting and highly readable, a charged tale full of physical adventure and political battle that sweeps from the marble halls of Richmond to a dingy room in a Havana hotel.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element History - U.S.
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