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6 - Confederate Military Leadership

from Part II - Managing the War

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2019

By
Steven Woodworth
Edited by
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Affiliation:
Louisiana State University
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Summary

The delegates at the Montgomery convention selected Jefferson Davis as Confederate president in part because they expected war and believed Davis would make a good commander in chief. An 1828 West Point graduate and seven-year veteran of the regular US Army, Davis had served as colonel of a Mississippi volunteer regiment in the Mexican–American War, gaining accolades for his role at the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista. During the 1850s he served as secretary of war under President Franklin Pierce and later as chairman of the Senate’s Committee on Military Affairs. There was scarcely anyone in America with better qualifications for leading a nation in wartime.

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The Cambridge History of the American Civil War , pp. 118 - 140
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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