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Newly elected by the Confederate Congress as the provisional Confederate president and later as the permanent Confederate president, Jefferson Davis had a difficult set of tasks ahead him. They included:
1. Forming a central government literally from scratch;
2. Appointing generals for the Confederate army;
3. Planning with his generals strategies to defeat Union armies that would be sent to end the Confederate rebellion;
4. Finding ways to keep the Confederate armies supplied; and
5. Seeking formal recognition of the Confederate States of America from nations such as England and France.

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