Jefferson Davis, was potentially eligible to be elected the nation’s president after the Civil War. Can this be right? Section 3 states in relevant part, “No person shall … hold any office ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who ... who by their nature are not fit to govern themselves.” Even after the war — which killed more than 620,000 soldiers and left his beloved ...

Jefferson Davis was raised on a plantation and educated at Transylvania University and West Point. He served as a congressman, a senator and as secretary of war, and distinguished himself in ...

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And not too many months after that the federal government ... Capitol cost seven lives. The Civil War cost seven hundred thousand. And yet Jefferson Davis was never held responsible for any ...

Jefferson Davis and the Civil War Era comprises nine essays by William J. Cooper, who is a noted Davis biographer and historian of the South. The essays fall into three broad categories: Davis and the ...

Monday was Jefferson Davis Day in Alabama, and thank God for that.

WASHINGTON — It was in a packed courtroom in Richmond, Virginia — the former capital of the Confederacy — in December 1868 where Chief Justice Salmon Chase concluded that Jefferson Davis ...

Jefferson Davis' birthday is one of three confederate holidays in Alabama. See when it is observed and what closures will happen.

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate States of America President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. What to know about the state holiday ...

The Valentine Museum on Wednesday unveiled the statue of Jefferson Davis that used ... to promote the Lost Cause, that effort after the Civil War to deny slavery as the central goal of the ...