The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government is a book written by Jefferson Davis, the President of the Confederate States during the American Civil War. This two-volume work chronicles the history of the Confederacy, covering events from the Missouri Compromise in 1820 through the Civil War and the readmission of Southern states to Congress in the late 1860s. Davis aims to justify the Southern states' decision to secede from the Union and to correct misapprehensions about the Confederacy's actions.