Jefferson Davis

Although he held that States in principle had the right to secede from the Union, he was certain that secession would lead to war with the Union and he knew that the Confederate States did not have the military and naval resources to properly defend themselves in the long run.

Robert E. Lee would be appointed the General in Chief of all Confederate armies in February of 1865. Prior to that he was only the general commanding the Army of Northern Virginia and President Jefferson Davis was commander in chief and therefore the head of the armies. Lee would only be answerable to him in his new position.

Jefferson Finis Davis, the President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War, took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the more populous and industrialized Union.

The North and the south were separated into to different societies and had different economic systems

No one knows and nobody will ever know.

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The humbly-born Abraham Lincoln did not look like a front-runner for the Presidency, and was elected only by chance, as a compromise candidate. Yet he possessed finer qualities of political and human judgment than any other US President, before or since. The challenges he faced were massive. He had to control an exceptionally unruly cabinet, some of them downright disloyal. He had to use the most subtle diplomacy to stop foreign countries intervening against him. He had to sustain civilian morale when casualties were mounting with no apparent result. And he had to face a wartime General Election that he thought he would lose (but didn't).

The aristocratic Jefferson Davis was liked and respected for his noble character and sense of obligation. For example, he believed passionately in slavery, but he also believed just as passionately in being a good slave-master - so much so that his slaves said they didn't want their freedom. As an ex-regular officer, he felt he ought to be his own General-in-Chief, but he failed to manage the disastrous feuds between his subordinates in the field, and few considered him a shrewd strategist. When the end came, he went into denial, and tried to hide in the West, fantasizing that the fight could be carried on.

I believe it can safely be said that each president was far to much involved in the conduct of the US Civil War. Both men called for military operations that were not militarily sound. As one example, Lincoln's preoccupation of capturing Richmond, yet not supplying his generals with enough troops to accomplish this delayed the fall of Richmond until very late in the war. On the other hand, one example of Jefferson Davis' "hands on" strategy prevented him from delegating many operational duties to a general in chief hampered his generals. Davis even vetoed a Confederate act that sought to create this position. It was created in 1865, and much too late to affect the war.

On April 12, 1861, the confederates demanded the surrender of Fort Sumner in SC and began firing when they refused, thereby beginning the Civil War. I do not know what part Jefferson Davis had in making the decision.

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Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States of America. He was not a very good President, and during the Civil War became so loony that he was replaced.

Davis urged national unity to secure independence, while his Cabinet stressed "states rights."

He spent the first two years after the end of the American Civil War in prison awaiting his fate after being charged with committing treason.

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.

He didn't. He lived on to an old age, as the symbol of the Lost Cause, eventually being viewed with affection, but not respect.

In the Spring and Summer of 1864, President Jefferson Davis believed that he could influence the US presidential elections and have President Abraham Lincoln defeated at the polls. Davis sent agents to the North and Canada to negotiate with Northern peace groups and to work for the release of Confederate POW's. He also had these agents attempt to bribe Union newspapers to editorialize for a peace agreement between the North and South. These attempts yielded no results but it cost Davis very little so he attempted it.

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Jefferson Finis Davis

He represented the state of Mississippi as a senator.
Jefferson Davis was US Senator from Mississippi before he became the President of the confederate States of America..

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Jefferson Davis was from the part of Christian County, Kentucky that now forms Todd County, Kentucky. When the State of Mississippi seceded from the Union in January 1861, Jefferson Davis was a U.S. Senator who represented that state.

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.

The toast to Jefferson Davis was famously given by Confederate General Jubal A. Early. This occurred during a gathering of supporters after the Civil War, where Early praised Davis's leadership and dedication to the Confederate cause. The toast was part of a broader effort to honor Davis and the Confederacy's legacy among its supporters.