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Jefferson Davis in Blue: The Life of Sherman's Relentless Warrior

By Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes, Jr., and Gordon D. Whitney

(Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 475. Notes, maps, illustrations, bibliography, index. $49.95.)

On his deathbed in 1879, Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis journeyed back in memory to his service under fire at Fort Sumter in April 1861. Although an undeniably dramatic episode, it was only one among many in an unusually eventful life. As a teenage volunteer from Indiana in the Mexican War, Davis distinguished himself on the field at Buena Vista (although another Jefferson Davis was propelled further by his actions there). After Sumter, he saw action on such far-flung battlefields as Pea Ridge and Chickamauga, Atlanta and Bentonville, in most cases commanding a division. The immediate postwar period found him ensconced in the Alaskan town of Sitka's vast Baranoff Castle, as military governor of the newly purchased territory. Later, Davis zealously prosecuted the Modoc War of 1872–1873 near the California-Oregon border, and saw his opponent, the Modoc chieftain Kintpuash (known to whites as Captain Jack), shackled and sent to the gallows.

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