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 ...

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 American Civil War ... leading up to the war and what caused divisions. The White House of the Confederacy, nearby Tredegar, is the former home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

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 ...

Alexander Gardner/Library of Congress When the American Civil War began ... of West Point and a former U.S. secretary of war, Jefferson Davis (c. 1863) was well suited to his role as commander ...