Albert Sidney Johnston
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General Albert Sidney Johnston was a U.S. military officer who served as a general officer in three different armies: the Texas Army, the United States Army, and the Confederate States Army. He saw ex
Johnston in uniform, c. 1861
Johnston as commander of the Department of Utah. Portrait taken by Samuel C. Mills at Camp Floyd, Utah Territory, winter of 1858–59
Albert S. Johnston in Confederate Army uniform wearing Three Gold Stars and Wreath on a General's Collar
Henry Mosler's drawing of the death of General Johnston
Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson F. Davis was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a member of the Democratic Party wh
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…Wars, the U.S.-Mexican War, the Utah War, and the American Civil War, where he died on the battlefield. Considered by Confederate States President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the later emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of…
Davis in 1859
1825 West Point class register listing Davis
Slave cabins at Brierfield, etching by Alfred R. Waud for Harper's Weekly (1866)
Daguerreotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845)