AN INTERVIEW WITH JEFFERSON DAVIS

[JMadonna]

(08-26-2013 04:14 PM)wsanto Wrote:  Don't you feel that In July 1864 Davis still had hope of victory? Of course, in the next few months it would all unravel with Sherman marching toward Atlanta, Grant starting his seige of Petersburg and Lincoln winning re-election.

The only hope of victory that Davis had in the summer of 64 was a political one in hoping Lincoln lost the election. The Confederates were militarily outnumbered 2-1 from the beginning of the year and getting weaker. They were just hoping not to lose militarily before November.

I think the reason he granted the interview was to paint Lincoln as the one interested in continuing the war and only for emancipation. Give Davis independence and he would be satisfied.