The Southern president’s single-minded commitment to victory undercut the Confederacy’s chance for success. Jefferson Davis’ chief occupation before 1861 was politics. He had other vocations, of course. As a young man he served as an officer in the U.S. Army, and in the mid-1830s he became a cotton planter. But from his selection in 1844 …
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