Jefferson Davis

His fater is Samuel Emory Davis His mother is Sallie Knox Taylor

Jefferson Davis was captured while camping with his wife, J. H. Reagan, and B. Harrison in Irvinville, Georgia. Davis was charged with treason and tqken to Ft. Monroe. He was imprisoned for two years before he was freed on bail without a trail. Northerners including Horace Greeley paid the bail while trying to win publicity for his new newspaper called The New Yorker.

Yes. He also served of the committee that wrote it, and wrote the first draft.

he was a planter, politician, and a solider born in Kentucky.

They Both believed that

*The Union must be saved

*State Rights

*Slavery must be abolished.

That's nuts. Davis favored slavery and Lincoln opposed states rights. They only thing they had in common was being born in Kentucky.

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Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808 and was elected provisional president of the Confederate states in February 1861. He would be 52 years old at that point. After winning regular elections in November of that year he would be 53 years of age.

As President of the Confederate States and Commander in Chief of its Armies, Jefferson Davis was one of the most influential men involved in the war.

As a President he attempted to centralize power and so gained many enemies from the "States Rights" proponants who alway opposed centralizing power. He also attempted to gain foreign recognition through the use of emmisaries and by refusing to sell Cotton, Tobacco and other such crops in the mistaken view that these were essential to British and French economies.

As Commander in Chief of the Confederate Armies his overall strategy was to defend all of the Confederate States at every point and to try to invade Union territory both in the East and West. He came up with the flawed system out west of using the Mississippi as a marker for the end of the Western Theater and the beginning of the Trans-Mississippi. He only had any real familiurallity with the Virginia Theater and only thought of the West and the Trans-Mississippi in passing.

He allientated many generals and politicians and crippled the Confederate Cause as a result. He treated any and all of his oposition as untrustworthy, unpatriotic and those who opposed him as being little better than Traitors.

Overall it is agreed by most that Jeff Davis was far more useful to the Confederate Cause as the Southern Martyr in Fort Monroe than he had ever been as the Confederate President in Richmond

Shays led a group of farmers in an aborted revolt known as Shays' Rebellion. Angry over foreclosures caused largely by the government's failure under the Articles of Confederation to pay wages owed to Revolutionary War soldiers, farmers attempted to raid a federal arsenal but were turned back by a private army (hired because Congress hadn't paid the current national army at the time either and was terrified of the risk that they too would revolt). Though Shays didn't immediately succeed, his rebellion did create the catalyst needed to bring delegates to Philadelphia for what would become known as the Constitutional Convention.

I believe he was capable, but never fulfilled it. Here is what I mean...

Jefferson thought he should be leading an army, not a nation. So, he led the CSA armies AND the nation. But, because he focused so much on military, things like the economy were neglected. So, when the economy and things of that sort began to go down hill, there was nothing to stop it. It got really bad too.

Ex. By the end of war - USA 1 dollar = 2,000 - 2,500 CSA dollars

Lincoln had sent Davis a telegram stating that if he let the Star of the West pass through with supplies to the fort that it would signify the domain over Fort Sumter. I believe that Jefferson Davis could not accept that part of the South, even if it was a small piece of land in Charleston Harbor, could be a part of the United States and a state where the property existed had already seceded.

Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States of America. He called attack on North @ Fort Sumter. He was not able to keep confederate states together for very long.He was on the Confederate's side.

Not as adults! As children, they went fishing together after a rain. Lincoln could not work the fields after a rain and it was the only time he got to go fishing. The Lincolns lived near Knob Creek and the Davis's had a vacation home near there.

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) is best remembered as the first and only President of the Confederate States during the Civil War. Believing in the sovereignty of the states, and the right of the people to alter or abolish their form of government and establish a new one, he held that each state had the right to secede from the union and that the federal government had no authority to attempt to coerce a state to remain in the union. Accustomed to giving commands and being obeyed, he did not function well as a politician, and this limited his success in governing the Confederacy. After the South lost the war, he was captured at Irwinville, Georgia, imprisoned at Fortress Monroe in Virginia, and indicted for treason. Released on bail after two years, he was never brought to trial. He later wrote his memoirs, "The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government," in which he explains his views on the Union, the Constitution, and States Rights.

In the "War Between the States", or the "American Civil War", Jefferson Davis was fighting for independence of a slave-holding Confederate States of America apart from the Union of the United States of America. He joined Robert E. Lee in advocating military service and emancipation for slaves as southern states had in the US Revolution. He was defeated repeatedly by the slave power in the Confederate Congress which ultimately chose to maintain slavery and sacrifice independence. They lost their Confederacy, the "Lost Cause", their slaves and slavery. He had served as US Senator and US Secretary of War. His prior service to the United States intensified hatred of him in the North because he had occupied offices of trust in the US before the "Great Rebellion". Remarkably, Davis and his brother ran an ideal plantation in Mississippi where freedmen after the Civil War voluntarily became renters and sharecroppers on their lands. Very few slave masters were so ethical that their slaves stayed in any relationship with their former masters after emancipation. Generally slavery oppressed slaves and corrupted masters. He served an imprisonment on Dry Tortugas island following the end of the Civil War, then was repatriated and lived out his life as a prosperous life insurance agent.

Jefferson Davis faced many problems in office. First of all, he faced the incessant demands of states righters that despised any centralized control (thus he had trouble taxing, keeping currency value steady, and even raising armies sometimes). He was a man of stubborn principle that refused to conform to public opinion, and as somewhat of a control freak he attempted to direct too many of the operations of the Confederacy. Not to mention the fact that his Confederacy was economically weaker, less populous, and manufacturingly weak.

During life, Jefferson Davis had an average body frame, somewhat wavy hair and a strong nose. He sometimes had facial hair. He died in 1889 and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, VA.

He was the President of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War. He did not want to secede (separate) from the Union, at first, but supported it after his state seceded. He then became the president of the Confederate States of America and led them into battles during the civil war, but did not succeed. Instead, he lost the war and was thrown into jail.

Jefferson did have a wife and I think 4 kids! You should visit the Monticello, Jeffersons home! It's in Virginia.

After the Confederacy lost the war, Davis was captured in Georgia (10 May 1865), thrown in jail and later charged with treason. After two years in prison, he was released on bail and the charges were dropped.

Jefferson Davis was president from 1861-1865

Lincoln's initiative to send supplies to the garrison of the fort, notified to the governor Pickens of South Carolina by means of a confidentially letter, led the Confederate government, on April 10,1861 to make the decision to intimate the fort to surrender.

The request was repealed and the Confederate artillery started the bombardment of the fortress, on 4,30 AM of April 12, 1861, thus making the serious responsibility for having opened the conflict, marking the importance of the battle.

Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808

Jefferson Davis was a member of the Class of 1828 and graduated from the US Military Academy at West Point. He also attended Transylvania University in Kentucky.