Jefferson Davis

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.

Yes, Jefferson Davis has 6 kids.

Based on the circumstances in 1861, it can be almost called a miracle, almost is important, that a new central government ruling the new Confederacy was built from scratch. The South had no central government, no army or navy to speak of and much of it had to do with the efforts of Jefferson Davis. Davis is sometime maligned as a leader, this is not true. His efforts to organize the South and help fight a Union army with almost unlimited resources to fight a major was a remarkable feat, to which much credit belongs to Jefferson Davis.

Jefferson Davis was elected by the Confederate Congress to the office of president by an election held in November 6, 1861. According to the Confederate Constitution the Confederate president would serve a one time six year term. Prior to that time Davis had been appointed by the Confederate Congress as the provisional president.

Davis was imprisoned for around two years, with the intention being to try him for treason. Eventually tempers cooled and northerners realized this was not a good idea, so he was released. Davis had lost all his property during the war, and was penniless. An admirer gave Davis the use of a large home on the Mississippi Gulf coast, "Belvoir", now preserved as a museum, damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Davis wrote his memoirs there. Though extensive, its not as complete as it might have been. All his papers had been confiscated, as had the records of the Confederate government, and Davis died before the US government began publishing all these papers as "The War of the Rebellion: The Official Records" in the 1890s.

blue. becausse it was the color of his eyes

Lincoln lost his mother when he was six. Washington lost his father when he was twelve.

Lincoln had to make his own contacts. Washington's brother introduced him to people who would help him and give him work.

Lincoln would borrow books and then return them to the owner and discuss them. Washington would visit a person and read the book in the person's library and then discuss it.

Lincoln worked constantly, failed in business twice, and finally made money reading law. In more settled times he would have been an extremely successful rich lawyer. Washington worked constantly but then married money. In more settled times, he would have lived the life of a country squire.

Lincoln served briefly in a Militia. Washington spent years in the Military.

Jefferson left the senate because Mississippi seceded from the union. His final speech in the senate is at <http://www.garyrutledge.com/Documents/JeffersonDavisSpeech.htm>.

1. He was in the American revolution (commander in chief)
2. He was one of the greatest commander in chief in u.s history.