Was Jeff Davis 'Delusional'?

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I tend to agree also. Jefferson Davis was not only a politician, he had been a successful military man. By the end of 1864, he had to realize that the Confederacy was in grave danger. Would standing by his principles and preaching optimism be worth the toll in human lives?

I found one thing interesting last month when Dr. Bradley Gottfried spoke at Surratt House on Gettysburg Revisited. Someone asked about the age-old thought that Gettysburg was the high water mark for the Confederacy. Dr. Gottfried replied that he thought Antietam was the high water mark a year earlier. From that point, things went downhill. Could the next sixteen months of losses and deprivation have affected Davis mentally? Take a decent and God-fearing man and put him through such stress, and one never knows what the mind will do. Lincoln certainly showed the stress in his face; Davis manifested it in his desperate actions and words, perhaps.