The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2, credited to Jefferson Davis, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

About the work

The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:

LibriVox recording of The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2 by Jefferson Davis. Read in English by volunteer readers. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War. Davis wrote the book as a straightforward history of the Confederate States of America and as an apologia for the causes that he believed led to and justified the American Civil War. (Intro modified from Wikipedia) "The most painful pages of this work are those which . . . present the subjugation of the State governments by the Government of the United States. The patriot, the lover of his country and of the liberties of mankind, can not contemplate these facts without a feeling of grief which will not be comforted. That the work of the fathers of the republic, that the most magnificent system of constitutional government which the wisdom of man has devised, should be turned from its object, changed from its order, rendered powerless to protect the unalienable rights and sovereignty of the people, and made the instrument by which to establish and maintain imperialism, is a revolution unlike any other that may be found in the history of mankind. The result established the truthfulness of the assertion . . . that the Northern people, by their unconstitutional warfare to gain the freedom of certain negro slaves, would lose their own liberties." (from chapter 42) This project contains Volume 2 (of 2).

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 2
• Author credits: Jefferson Davis
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 52
• Listed recording duration: 30:15:29

Catalogue topics

• politics
• history
• war
• Constitution
• military
• civil war
• confederate army
• confederate government

Opening tracks: first 24 of 52

1. 01 - Part 4, Chapter 15 — 39:33
2. 02 - Part 4, Chapter 16 — 39:29
3. 03 - Part 4, Chapter 17 — 40:51
4. 04 - Part 4, Chapter 18 — 35:45
5. 05 - Part 4, Chapter 19 — 27:32
6. 06 - Part 4, Chapter 20 — 44:03
7. 07 - Part 4, Chapter 21 — 40:45
8. 08 - Part 4, Chapter 22 — 23:23
9. 09 - Part 4, Chapter 23 — 26:48
10. 10 - Part 4, Chapter 24 — 42:45
11. 11 - Part 4, Chapter 25 — 46:57
12. 12 - Part 4, Chapter 26 — 35:31
13. 13 - Part 4, Chapter 27 — 38:13
14. 14 - Part 4, Chapter 28 — 47:37
15. 15 - Part 4, Chapter 29 — 34:50
16. 16 - Part 4, Chapter 30 — 49:05
17. 17 - Part 4, Chapter 31 — 45:03
18. 18 - Part 4, Chapter 32 — 24:49
19. 19 - Part 4, Chapter 33 — 33:11
20. 20 - Part 4, Chapter 34 — 36:18
21. 21 - Part 4, Chapter 35 — 36:24
22. 22 - Part 4, Chapter 36 — 17:02
23. 23 - Part 4, Chapter 37 — 34:26
24. 24 - Part 4, Chapter 38 — 30:01

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