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Dec 22, 2021 · Jefferson Finis Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Christian County, Kentucky, less than a hundred miles from where future U.S. president Abraham Lincoln would be born eight months later. Davis was one of ten children; his father owned an inn and was a veteran of the Revolutionary War (1775–1783). The family left Kentucky a few years later ...
Nov 10, 2018 · After graduating from the US Military Academy at West Point, Jefferson Davis served in the Black Hawk and Mexican-American Wars, served as President Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War, and was elected to the US Senate where he led the southern defense of slavery. He resigned from the Senate on January 21, 1861, upon the secession of Mississippi ...
12/6/1889. President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808, in Kentucky. His family migrated to Wilkinson County, Mississippi, while Davis was still a young child. In Mississippi, Davis attended many of the local schools before receiving an appointment to West Point, graduating in 1828.
May 11, 2015 · On the anniversary of the capture of Jefferson Davis by Union forces, explore 10 surprising facts about the Confederate president.
Jefferson Davis - Civil War, Confederacy, Imprisonment: When Lee surrendered to the North without Davis’s approval, Davis and his cabinet moved south, hoping to reach the trans-Mississippi area and continue the struggle until better terms could be secured from the North. At dawn on May 10, 1865, Davis was captured near Irwinville, Georgia. He was imprisoned in a damp casemate at Fort Monroe ...
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America from its foundation in 1861 up to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. He was born in Kentucky in 1808, but grew up in Mississippi after his family moved there in 1812 to run a cotton plantation. He graduated from university in Lexington, Kentucky in 1821, and three ...
Varina Anne Banks Davis ( née Howell; May 7, 1826 – October 16, 1906) was the only First Lady of the Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the Presidential Mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861, and lived there for the remainder of the Civil War.
