Joseph E. Davis: Pioneer PatriarchA closely observed view of the nineteenth-century South in a biography of the Confederate president's elder brother. |
Contents
ONE Frontier Heritage | 3 |
TWO Founding a State and a Fortune | 18 |
THREE Antebellum Planter Patriarch | 49 |
FOUR WarRavaged Refugee | 95 |
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