P.G. T. Beauregard, a capable general who often stopped Grant, became a marginally successful businessman after the war. He was frequently critical of Jefferson Davis and believed the war could ...

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

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 ...

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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 ...

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

Joshua Zeitz, a Politico Magazine contributing writer, is the author of Lincoln's God: How Faith Transformed a President and a Nation (May 2023). Follow him @joshuamzeitz. With this week’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

For example, after many ... Black Hawk War (he quipped that his combat experience amounted to little more than “a good many bloody struggles with the mosquitoes”). Jefferson Davis was raised ...