The Confederate Medal of Honor is a posthumous award created by the Sons of Confederate Veterans in 1977 to recognize Confederate veterans who "distinguished themselves conspicuously by gallantry, bra
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
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)