Baltimore: John Murphy & Co.,1871. First edition, cloth-bound issue. Tall 8vo. Personal copy of Jefferson Davis, signed by him three times in ink. Publisher's green cloth, lettered in gilt, lightly rubbed to extremities; brown-coated endpapers, complete with double fly-leaves, with some minor spotting to blanks, else a clean interior. With Davis's signature on front pastedown, also dated in his hand, "Memphis Dec. 1871," indistinct against the the brown-coated pastedown; on the recto of the first front fly, strong and clear; on the recto of the first back fly, also dated, "1871," in Davis's hand, strong & clear. A volume rich in prominent Confederate associations. Robert E. Lee, who had displaced Jefferson Davis as the leading personification of the Confederacy, died on October 12, 1870. In 1871 Davis was back in the United States, living in Memphis, after his pardon from the charge of treason under President Andrew Johnson 's amnesty order of Christmas Day 1868. In addition to other Confederate commands, Wade Hampton commanded the Cavalry Corps, Army of Northern Virginia directly under Robert E. Lee.