May 8, 1865
Biographies This is the who’s who of the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis Meredith Elliott
Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He is still alive as of today. He is a Democrat, and was a cotton farmer before he began his politics career, and was in the military even before that. He is a very passionate and charismatic man, and will be a symbol of Southern pride for years to come. Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808. He was born in Christian County, Kentucky, and he grew up on a plantation in Mississippi. Davis returned Kentucky later on to go to a boarding school, and after that, enrolled in
Jefferson College, and finished his education in Transylvania University. He was involved in the military, and got married to Sarah Knox Taylor in the June of 1835. Unfortunately, she passed away only a few months after the wedding, in the September of 1835. In 1845, he remarried to Varina, and had six children named Varina, Margaret, Joseph, Samuel, Jefferson, and William, of course not all in the same year though. Also in 1845, he got a seat in the House of Representatives. He became president of the Confederate States in 1861. As Southerners, most of us admired Jefferson Davis as our president, but times have changed, and he no longer leads us. We have been joined as a nation once again, but that will not dull our Southern pride. Jefferson Davis is,