Historic Papers on the Causes of the Civil War - Paperback

by Mildred Lewis Rutherford (Author), Eugenia Dunlap Potts (Author)

This little book is comprised of essays written by two distinguished Southern ladies: Mrs. Eugenia Dunlap Potts (1840-1912), of the Lexington, Kentucky chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (U.D.C.), and Miss Mildred Lewis Rutherford (1851-1928), noted past Historian General of the U.D.C., from 1911-1916. Subjects covered include the social structure of the antebellum South, slavery, secession, the Southern Confederacy, and a comparison of the character and political careers of Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis.