Autobiography of Jefferson Davis [1890]

An abbreviated autobiography by the Ex-President of the Southern Confederacy published a month after his death in "Belford's Magazine". The years before & after the War Between the States are the focus of this brief account of his life. A detailed chronological outline of the life of Mr. Davis precedes the autobiography. Each section has been extracted from "Jefferson Davis His Letters, Papers and Speeches," Vol. 1, Compiled and Edited by Dunbar Rowland, 1923.