His name? Jefferson Davis. And the reason he’s been sidelined by history is that he was the president, not of the United States, but of the Confederate States – a rival country that was formed by ...
The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.
The southern confederacy, now enshrined in the hearts of all Americans as the “lost cause,” lived only four years. It was born on February 4th, 1861, when delegates of six States of the lower South, ...
A clerk in the War Department ... it determined that Davis would be tried in a civil court rather than a military one, with even Stanton voting in favor. Jefferson Davis was eventually released ...
The American Civil War ... 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.