Jefferson Davis

The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy, which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union to preserve slavery in the United States, which they saw as threatened because of the election of Abraham Lincoln and the growing abolitionist movement in the North. The war lasted a little over four years, ending with Union victory, the dissolution of the Confederacy and the abolition of slavery, freeing four million African Americans.

President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 (1808–1889)

head of state and of government of the Confederate States

artwork by Thomas Crawford, statue on top of the US Capitol

November 1861 process electing the president of the Confederate States of America

surrender of the Confederate States at the end of the American Civil War

historic house in Alabama, United States

essay by Jefferson Davis