Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the ... Davis was imprisoned for two years after the war but never tried, and died a much-admired figure in the South.

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the state holiday ...

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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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 ...

After Memorial Day weekend, Alabama residents get an additional three-day weekend the week after to honor Confederate President Jefferson Davis' birthday ... during the Civil War and had a ...

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 ...