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Jefferson Davis was the president for the Confederacy doing the Civil War. He resigned from the Union on Feb. 9, 1861. Six days later F. Sumter was fired upon by the Confederacy which resulted in the Civil War. He was captured in May of 1865, and charged with treason and stripped from his office.

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