jefferson davis

     

On April 29, 1861 he said, "We seek no conquest…all we ask is to be let alone"

Trivia about jefferson davis

  • In 1978, Congress restored U.S. citizenship to this man seen here
  • He turned down an appointment as a U.S. senator in 1875 because it meant accepting a pardon for treason
  • A county in Mississippi is named for this Confederate president
  • He represented Mississippi in the Senate for 8 years before becoming president of the Confederacy
  • His first act after being sworn in as president of the Confederacy was to send a peace commission to Washington, D.C.
  • On Nov. 6 1861 he was elected to a 6-year term as President of the Confederacy
  • In 1877 this former President retired to an estate near Biloxi to write "Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government"
  • This Confederate president's Richmond, Virginia residence contains more than 2,000 Civil War relics
  • On Feb. 9, 1861 he was elected provisional president of the Confederacy
  • In 1861 he resigned from the U.S. Senate
  • Born in Kentucky the year before Lincoln, he became president the same year as Lincoln & died 24 years after Lincoln
  • President Lincoln's beard was fuller than that of this Confederate counterpart
  • The Confederate Soldiers Monument on the State Capitol grounds has 5 bronze statues headed by this president
  • Judah Benjamin, an adviser to this man, was "The Brains of the Confederacy" (2)(2) He fled to England & became a successful lawyer
  • A good friend of Buchanan's was this man who went on to be president -- of the Confederacy
  • Miles drew criticism after the Civil War for imprisoning this former Confederate president in leg irons
  • Sensibly, Lincoln is a northern Louisiana parish & the parish named for this opposing president is in the south
  • A president, 1861-1865
  • The "White House of the Confederacy" in Richmond was home to this leader
  • Zachary Taylor disapproved of his daughter Sarah's 1835 marriage to this future Confederate president
  • Before presiding over the Confederacy, he was Secretary of War under Franklin Pierce
  • Here's this Confederate president in full beard, later in life
  • Horace Greeley lost many subscribers after he helped post bail for this Confederate president
  • In 1835 Zachary Taylor's daughter Sarah married this future president of the Confederacy
  • On Washington's birthday, 1862 he was inaugurated president of the Confederacy
  • Alexander Stephens called this boss "weak and vacillating, petulant, peevish, obstinate"
  • Several Southern states celebrate his June 3rd birthday instead of Lincoln's
  • In April 1863 he ended a bread riot in Richmond by personally addressing the mob
  • Beauvoir, his last home in Biloxi, is now operated by the United Sons of Confederate Veterans
  • This U.S. senator from Mississippi opposed secession but left the senate when his state seceded
  • In 1870 the first black U.S. senator, Hiram Revels of Miss., occupied the Senate seat of this Confederate leader
  • After serving as Buchanan's vice president, John Breckenridge went on to be this president's Secretary of War
  • In Tennessee, Confederate Memorial Day is observed on June 3, the birthday of this confederate president
  • (Ken Burns reads.) This president said, "If the Confederacy fails, there should be written on its tombstone, 'Died of a theory'"
  • After his presidency, this West Point graduate was imprisoned for 2 years
  • In February 1861 6 Southern states founded the Confederate States of America & elected him president
  • Sec. of War for Franklin Pierce , some called him Mr. President (though certainly not you!); say hello to...
  • He was clipping roses in his garden when he found out that he'd been elected President of the Confederacy
  • On Jan. 21, 1861 he made a moving farewell speech in the Senate pleading for peace; a month later, he was the Confederate Pres.
  • In his Feb. 18, 1861 inaugural address, he spoke of "the absence of wrong on our part"
  • In his Feb. 16, 1861 inaugural address, he said, "The time for compromise has now passed"
  • His home Beauvoir, where he wrote "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government", is a landmark in Biloxi
  • This Civil War figure was born in 1808 & named after the President of the U.S.
  • In 1865 he was put in leg irons in a damp Fort Monroe, Virginia cell; his citizenship was posthumously restored in 1978
  • On his April 4, 1865 visit to Richmond, Lincoln sat at this man's desk; we don't know if he put his feet up on it

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  • RT @ColoredHistory: Jefferson Davis, first- and only President of the Confederate States
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  • RT @HistoryCounts: In the wikipedia entry for Jefferson Davis, the section called Legacy has a touch of neo-Confederate ideology.
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