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- catalog abstract "This volume on the Southern effort in the Civil War has at least one novel feature. It says practically nothing about military leaders. The fact is commonly forgotten that the South possessed civic as well as military figures. It had a government as well as an army. Yet the civilian side has so far attracted little attention from historians. - Prologue.".
- catalog alternative "Jefferson Davis and his cabinet.".
- catalog contributor b2102897.
- catalog contributor b2102898.
- catalog coverage "Confederate States of America Biography.".
- catalog coverage "Confederate States of America Politics and government.".
- catalog created "c1939.".
- catalog date "1939".
- catalog date "c1939.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1939.".
- catalog description "1. Jefferson Davis, Southern nationalist: A miscellaneous education -- The early tragedy -- Scholastic recluse -- Varina Howell -- State rights -- Leader of secession -- Secretary of War -- 2. The great Georgia triumvirate: Alexander H. Stephens -- The man within -- The Toombs-Stephens coalition -- Robert Toombs, Unionist -- Howell Cobb -- 3. The Cotton Belt sets up a confederacy: The Montgomery Convention -- Davis elected president accidentally -- The constitution for secession -- The first cabinet -- 4. Diplomacy on the Mexican front: Recognition by Europe -- Colonel John Pickett -- Señor Corwin -- Farce in Mexico City -- 5. A diplomatic debut in England and France: The quest for recognition -- Lord Russell's compliments -- 6. "The brains of the Confederacy": Judah P. Benjamin -- Creole marriage -- "Smiling as usual" -- Benjamin in the War Office -- 7. Confederate finance: Christopher Memminger -- White gold -- White gold, continued -- The cotton famine -- ".
- catalog description "8. French bankers fleece the Confederacy: The Erlanger loan -- Slidell and Benjamin -- International finance -- 9. James Murray Mason: A Virginian in the making -- The Virginia claim to superiority -- England and the United States -- 10. Queen Victoria's "two bad boys": Lord Palmerston -- Lord John Russell -- London society -- The blockade -- The movement for recognition -- 11. Friends of the second empire: John Slidell -- Exile in New Orleans -- Intrigue in paris -- 12. Napoleon III and the Confederacy: A cautious friend -- A large bribe offered France -- The cold shoulder -- 13. The discord of the governors: Secretary Seddon -- Pro-Unionism in the South -- Joseph Emerson Brown -- Zebulon B. Vance -- 14. "Secession" within the Confederacy: An army for Georgia -- Joe Brown nullifies conscription -- Joe Brown's ten thousand -- 15. Mallory's fight on the blockade: Stephen R. Mallory -- Men but no ships -- The ironclads -- 16. Comic relief: The post office -- ".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. [433]-439.".
- catalog description "The propaganda of the Confederacy -- The mission to the Vatican -- 17. End of the "despot" Davis: The inevitable schism -- Hostility within the Cabinet -- A Union man at heart -- The failure of state sovereignty.".
- catalog description "This volume on the Southern effort in the Civil War has at least one novel feature. It says practically nothing about military leaders. The fact is commonly forgotten that the South possessed civic as well as military figures. It had a government as well as an army. Yet the civilian side has so far attracted little attention from historians. - Prologue.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 452 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Statesmen of the lost cause.".
- catalog isFormatOf "Statesmen of the lost cause.".
- catalog issued "1939".
- catalog issued "c1939.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : The Literary Guild of America,".
- catalog relation "Statesmen of the lost cause.".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America Biography.".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America Politics and government.".
- catalog spatial "Confederate States of America".
- catalog subject "Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.".
- catalog subject "E487 .H47 1939".
- catalog subject "Statesmen Confederate States of America Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Jefferson Davis, Southern nationalist: A miscellaneous education -- The early tragedy -- Scholastic recluse -- Varina Howell -- State rights -- Leader of secession -- Secretary of War -- 2. The great Georgia triumvirate: Alexander H. Stephens -- The man within -- The Toombs-Stephens coalition -- Robert Toombs, Unionist -- Howell Cobb -- 3. The Cotton Belt sets up a confederacy: The Montgomery Convention -- Davis elected president accidentally -- The constitution for secession -- The first cabinet -- 4. Diplomacy on the Mexican front: Recognition by Europe -- Colonel John Pickett -- Señor Corwin -- Farce in Mexico City -- 5. A diplomatic debut in England and France: The quest for recognition -- Lord Russell's compliments -- 6. "The brains of the Confederacy": Judah P. Benjamin -- Creole marriage -- "Smiling as usual" -- Benjamin in the War Office -- 7. Confederate finance: Christopher Memminger -- White gold -- White gold, continued -- The cotton famine -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "8. French bankers fleece the Confederacy: The Erlanger loan -- Slidell and Benjamin -- International finance -- 9. James Murray Mason: A Virginian in the making -- The Virginia claim to superiority -- England and the United States -- 10. Queen Victoria's "two bad boys": Lord Palmerston -- Lord John Russell -- London society -- The blockade -- The movement for recognition -- 11. Friends of the second empire: John Slidell -- Exile in New Orleans -- Intrigue in paris -- 12. Napoleon III and the Confederacy: A cautious friend -- A large bribe offered France -- The cold shoulder -- 13. The discord of the governors: Secretary Seddon -- Pro-Unionism in the South -- Joseph Emerson Brown -- Zebulon B. Vance -- 14. "Secession" within the Confederacy: An army for Georgia -- Joe Brown nullifies conscription -- Joe Brown's ten thousand -- 15. Mallory's fight on the blockade: Stephen R. Mallory -- Men but no ships -- The ironclads -- 16. Comic relief: The post office -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "The propaganda of the Confederacy -- The mission to the Vatican -- 17. End of the "despot" Davis: The inevitable schism -- Hostility within the Cabinet -- A Union man at heart -- The failure of state sovereignty.".
- catalog title "Jefferson Davis and his cabinet.".
- catalog title "Statesmen of the lost cause : Jefferson Davis and his cabinet / by Burton J. Hendrick.".
- catalog type "text".