Jefferson Davis and His Cabinet is a 1944 non-fiction book by Rembert Wallace Patrick, published by Louisiana State University Press in 1944.
[2] It explains how President of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis and the cabinet avoided being detained by Union forces.
[7] Simkins argued that the book strictly follows the history instead of being "inspirational" and that the author avoided lionizing the subject.
[6] He also stated that the book successfully proved that "Davis and his advisers were generally men of character, industry, and intelligence".
[8] Harrison A. Trexler of Southern Methodist University stated that the book "is an important contribution" in its field,[9] and that it avoids "superficial reasoning" and other "weaknesses of most narratives of the Confederate government".