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Historical person
born 1946
Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. A former United States senator and secretary of war, he led a government founded to preserve slavery and struggled with military coordination, resources and state resistance.
In Charles Frazier’s Varina, in 1906, an elderly Varina Howell Davis is living at a retreat in Saratoga Springs when James Blake, a Black teacher who spent part of his childhood in the Davis household, asks her to recover what she remembers of him. John Jakes’s North and South places Jefferson Davis within a narrative shaped by social change and the pressures of ordinary life, political ambition and government, and family, marriage and personal loyalty. Other novels featuring Jefferson Davis include Bernard Cornwell’s Rebel, Griff Hosker’s Rebel Raiders, John Jakes’s The Titans, John Jakes’s Love and War, and Griff Hosker’s Confederate Rangers.
Series
Lucky Jack’s Civil War follows cavalry and raiding in the American Civil War from the Confederate side. The books use irregular operations, scouting, raids and the road to Gettysburg to show a mobile war of risk, divided loyalties and battlefield escalation.
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The Kent Family Chronicles trace successive generations of one family from the eve of the American Revolution to the early 1890s. The saga begins with Phillipe Charboneau, the unrecognised son of an English duke, who becomes Philip Kent in America, and follows his descendants as they build, lose…
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The North and South Trilogy follows the Mains of South Carolina and the Hazards of Pennsylvania, two families joined when Orry Main and George Hazard become friends at West Point. Their bond survives the Mexican–American War and years of sectional conflict, but slavery, secession and family pressure place…
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The Starbuck Chronicles follow Nathaniel Starbuck, the son of a prominent Boston abolitionist preacher, after chance and personal loyalty draw him into Confederate service at the outbreak of the American Civil War. Serving first in the Faulconer Legion, Starbuck must prove himself among soldiers who distrust his Northern…
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