The Long Surrender

xiv, 319 pp. "The Long Surrender is a story of the Confederacy as only Burke Davis, one of America's foremost historians of the Civil War, can tell it. Burke Davis makes the reader eyewitness to history by following the Confederate leaders' race against time for personal survival as well as the dramatic capture of Jefferson Davis and his family and Davis' ignominious treatment by his captors--a cruel imprisonment which hardened Southern feeling against the North. ...explores one of history's most misunderstood figures, Jefferson Davis, and one of history's most beloved, Robert E. Lee--and how profoundly their contrasting views of the New South affected modern American attitudes." Maps on front and rear endpapers.