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He symbolised the Lost Cause.

He was a good figurehead for the Confederacy - a representative of the planter-aristocracy, with noble instincts, a strong feeling of feudal obligation to his slaves (who were so well-treated, they didn't want their freedom), and a respectable war record in Mexico, which appeared to give him military credibility.

But events soon showed that he was out of his depth, lacking strategic insight, failing to choose good Generals, and in the end scuttling away from his responsibilities and talking wildly about continuing the struggle from beyond the Mississippi.

Compared with Robert E. Lee, who surrendered manfully, earning high respect and generous terms from his captors, Davis was seen as a man who talked too much, dodging reality, and whose character ultimately failed the test.

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A Northern blockade, preventing him from importing war supplies.

His own ineptitude at handling a lot of feuding Generals.

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He was the Southern President, directly challenging Lincoln.

It did not take long to reveal that Davis had moved up too high for his talents. He was not successful in handling either his own cabinet nor the Generals fighting for him. When it came to the surrender, his character failed and he scuttled away from his responsibilities.

His appointment as President worked to Lincoln's advantage throughout.

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Jefferson Davis was the President of The Confederate States of America;

Jefferson Davis married the Great- Great Granddaughter of George Washington, who was also Zachary Taylor's daughter;

Additional facts are:

1. Jefferson Davis graduated from West Point and served in the US army.

2. He served in the Mexican War;

3. He was a senator from Mississippi before the Civil War;

4. He was the Secretary of War for the US;

5. He was a wealthy slave owner in Mississippi.

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The first President of the Confederate States of America.

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Made during the 1920's. Value on any of these single-shot shotguns tops out under $100.

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The president of the confederate states of America

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The first wife of Jefferson Davis, Sarah Knox Taylor, died of yellow fever September 15, 1835. The young couple had been married only three short months.

Verina Howell, Davis' second wife would die in 1906 at the age of 80 from pneumonia.

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Mississippi

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No. There is no way that Thomas Jefferson and Jefferson Davis were the same person. The reasons are thusly: Jefferson was born April, 3, 1743 and he died July 4, 1826. Davis was alive during the Civil War.

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Born in Kentucky, but ran his estates in Mississippi, rather unusually, that far 'down the river', as a benevolent slave-owner.

This led him to believe that other slave-owners were equally responsible and humane. In this, he misjudged both the people and the situation.

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Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America in the Civil War, therefore it's safe to assume that he was in favor of allowing African Americans to be owned as slaves and granted very few rights. The fact that his vacated senate seat was eventually filled by the first African American senator is ironic in that the ability to participate in the government and politics was precisely the kind of power that the racist southern whites had fought so hard to keep out of the hands of the African Americans.

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The couple was wed on February 26, 1845.

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There isn't going to be any, unless you find an old catalog. The NR Davis Gun Co bought the Warner Gun Co in 1917 and began producing guns marked Davis Warner Arms Co. Shortly after, the Crescent Firearms Co bought the company and produced guns under that name from parts already manufactured, until Crescent was bought by Stevens Arms.

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Jefferson Davis became the president of the confederate states during the civil war.

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a. In a society that prized states' rights, Davis had to centralize authority.

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It was not impacted by the war because of distance, but it suffered from a lack of immigration and expansion because of wartime shortages.

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shays' rebellion

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Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America for its entire duration during the Civil War (1861-1865). At first the Confederate Congress made Davis the provisional president and then within a year or so elected him as the permanent president. As an aside, the Confederate Constitution called for a president's term to be one of six years, with no reelection allowed. Davis had good qualifications. He had attended a good college, Transylvania and later graduated from West Point. He had also served for a time as the US Secretary of War.

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By means of his experience in military matters, which formed in the whole, a disaster for the Confederacy, because he deemed himself a great strategist and military leader and thereby he assessed his real capabilities far above their actual level.

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Both had roles in the Civil War.