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
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)
American Civil War
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The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United
Jefferson Davis
…F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) 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 who represented Mississippi in the House of Representatives from 1845 to 1846 and in the United…
Battle of Franklin, November 30, 1864
Tidball's Battery, near Fair Oaks, Va. Lt. Robert Clarke, Capt. John C. Tidball, Lt. William N. Dennison, and Capt. Alexander C.M. Pennington
Thure de Thulstrup Battle of Antietam
Timothy H. O'Sullivan