Entered, according to Act of Congress, in the year 1867, by FRANK H. ALFRIEND, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the District of Virginia. In offering this volume to the public, the occasion is embraced to avow, with unfeigned candor, a painful sense of the inadequate manner in which the design has been executed. Emboldened rather by his own earnest convictions, than by confidence in his capacity, the author has undertaken to contribute to American History, an extended narration of the more prominent incidents in the life of JEFFERSON DAVIS. Whatever may be the decision of the reader upon the merits of the performance, the author has the satisfaction aris…
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