A Short History of the Confederate States of America is a memoir written by Jefferson Davis, completed shortly before his death in 1889. Davis wrote most of this book while staying at Beauvoir along the Mississippi Gulf Coast near Biloxi, Mississippi. As a literary genre, a memoir (from the Latin memoria, meaning memory) forms a subclass of autobiography, although it is an older form of writing. ... Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889) was an American statesman who was President of the Confederate States of America, as well as a Congress man for Kentucky, for its entire history from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. ... Year 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Thursday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Beauvoir Main Residence Beauvoir is the historic post-war home and Presidential library of Confederate President Jefferson Davis located at Biloxi, Mississippi. ...

The book is much less a Davis memoir than an articulation of the secession argument.

According to a bibliography of the works of Jefferson Davis, this work was published in 1890 by Belford in New York.^[1] Though unclear from the citation, "Belford" likely refers to "Belford, Clarke & Co.", a publishing house established in 1875.^[2]

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