| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government. By William C. Davis. (New York: Harcourt, 2001. xvi, 496 pp. $30.00, ISBN 0-15-100564-8.)

In An Honorable Defeat, William C. Davis focuses on the flight of Jefferson Davis and his administration from Richmond when the city fell into Union hands in April 1865. As the Yankees moved in, Davis moved out, along with his cabinet and what was left of the national government. The little band fled through Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia, sloughing off people as it went. Some moved south to escape the country, others wanted to go west and continue the fight, and still others simply went home and fought no more. Davis himself was captured by a Union cavalry patrol near Irwinville, Georgia, and imprisoned. Several members of his administration suffered a like fate, while a lucky few managed to escape into eventual exile abroad. . . .

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