Focusing on the first two years of the Civil War in “Lincoln vs. Davis: The War of the Presidents,” Nigel Hamilton alternates between the two men in assessing their actions as commanders in chief.

Jefferson Davis, Mr. Hamilton argues, was much better prepared for wartime leadership than Abraham Lincoln, and up through ...

They were born less than a year and about 100 miles apart, and they departed for their inaugurations on the same day, Feb. 11, 1861. Their differences, of course, dwarf the similarities. Abraham ...

DAVIS displays all those faults of temper and expression which Mr. LINCOLN might a priori be expected to display, but from which he is, on the contrary, singularly free.

ELI P. ELLSWORTH'S ADDRESS History of Lincoln and Davis That of Their Times -- Gen. McClellan, Harriet Beecher Stowe, John Brown. Share full article. Sept. 25, 1895.

David Davis, Lincoln's early and lifelong friend, whom Lincoln nominated for Justice of the United States Supreme Court, said to the present writer that aside from the statement Lincoln made to ...

Jefferson Davis, Mr. Hamilton argues, was much better prepared for wartime leadership than Abraham Lincoln, and up through his decision to allow Robert E. Lee to invade the North in what became ...