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Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Magnolia Series, Number 3, 1991.

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1. Grady McWhiney, Jefferson Davis: Our Greatest Hero, Biloxi, Mississippi: The Beauvoir Press, 1989, p. 1.

2. Felicity Allen, Jefferson Davis, Unconquerable Heart, Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1999, p. 53.

3. Seventh Debate: Douglas' Speech in Don Fehrenbacher, editor, Abraham Lincoln: Speeches and Writings 1832-1858, New York: Viking Press, 1989, p. 787.

4. Allen, p. 203.

5. James and Walter Kennedy, Was Jefferson Davis Right?, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 1998, p. 111.

6. Allen, pp. 128-129.

7. See, for example, Bruce Catton, editor, The National Experience: A History of the United States, Second Edition, New York: Harcourt, Brace, & World, 1968, p. 345.

8. See, for example, Allen Tate, Jefferson Davis: His Rise and Fall, Nashville, Tennessee: J. S. Sanders & Company, 1998, reprint of 1929 edition.

9. My arguments on secession are drawn primarily from the following sources: Alexander Stephens, A Constitutional View Of The Late War Between The States; Its Causes, Character, Conduct And Results, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The National Publishing Company, 1868; John Graham, A Constitutional History of Secession, Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002; David Gordon, editor, Secession, State, and Liberty, New York: Transaction Publishing, 1998; Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, Chicago: Open Court, 1996, pp. 204-361; and James Ostrowski, "An Analysis of President Lincoln's Legal Arguments Against Secession," paper delivered at the Secession, State, and Economy Conference, College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, April 7-9, 1995, available at http://apollo3.com/~jameso/secession.html.

10. James McPherson, The Battle Cry of Freedom, New York: Ballantine Books, 1988, pp. 621-622.

11. Charles Galloway, Jefferson Davis: A Judicial Estimate, Biloxi, Mississippi: The Beauvoir Press, 1989, reprint of June 3, 1908 speech, pp. 2-3.

12. William Cooper, Jefferson Davis, American, Vintage Books Edition, New York: Vintage Books, 2001, p. 309.

13. Allen, p. 25.

14. Ibid., p. 129.

15. Ibid.

16. Ibid.

17. Ibid., p. 142.

18. Ibid.

19. Ibid., p. 204.

20. Ibid.

21. Ibid., p. 205.

22. Ibid., p. 206.

23. Ibid., p. 204.

24. Ibid.

25. Cooper, p. 467.

26. Allen, p. 323.

27. John Tilley, Facts the Historians Leave Out, Ashland City, Tennessee: Nippert Publishing, 1993, reprint of 1951 edition, p. 52; see also Samuel Ashe, A Southern View of the Invasion of the Southern States and War of 1861-1865, Crawfordville, Georgia: Ruffin Flag Company, n.d., reprint of 1938 edition, p. 57.

28. Allen, p. 483.

29. Ibid. for Mary Day's account, and Ibid., p. 446 for Dr. Craven's account.

30. Recounted in the video documentary Beauvoir: Memorial to the Lost Cause, Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College, Magnolia Series, Number 3, 1991.

31. See, for example, Hudson Strode, editor. Jefferson Davis: Private Letters 1823-1889, New York: De Capo Press, 1995, reprint of 1966 edition; cf. Allen, p. 483.

32. Allen, p. 501.

33. Ibid.

34. Ibid.

35. Ibid., pp. 139-140.

36. Ibid., p. 152.

37. Cooper, p. 443.

38. Ibid., p. 383.

39. Ibid., p. 449.

40. Rembert Patrick, Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet, Baton Rouge, Louisiana: LSU Press, 1944, p. 135.

41. Ibid., p. 176.

42. Ibid.

43. Ibid., p. 289.

44. Ibid., p. 366.

45. Allen, p. 323.

46. Ibid.

47. Cooper, pp. 691, 704.

48. Ibid., pp. 690-691.

49. Patrick, p. 27.

50. Cooper, p. 691.

51. Allen, p. 415.

52. Cooper, p. 494.

53. Allen, pp. 486-487.

54. Allen, pp. 6-8, 24, 373-374, 409, 412; Kennedy, pp. 91-94.

55. Ibid.

56. Ibid.

57. Kenneth C. Davis, Don't Know Much About the Civil War, New York: Avon Books, 1997, p. 156.

58. Cooper, p. 187; Kennedy, p. 40.

59. Kennedy, pp. 40-41; Cooper, pp. 250-255.

60. Cooper, p. 557, emphasis added.

61. Ibid., emphasis added.

62. Patrick, pp. 188-189; Cooper, pp. 553-554; Tate, pp. 263-265.

63. Letter from Jefferson Davis to Varina Davis, October 11, 1865, in Strode, p. 188.

64. Allen, p. 419.