when the Civil War broke out. When pressed to explain ... of Congress Prints and Photographs Division The bail bond of Jefferson Davis, the former president of the Confederacy.

The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four ...

Lincoln went to the Confederate White House and rested in Jefferson Davis’s office chair. Indeed, high drama marked the Civil War’s last months. In January, Congress ratified the Thirteenth ...

A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters ... celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial ...

This event is free and open to all ages and begins at 10 a.m. On this date in 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis and ...

A Civil War-era projectile has been discovered on a Manassas historic site celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. City Manager Steve Burke told Manassas City Council Monday night about the three ...