Jefferson Davis Archives

Jefferson Davis was President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865 He previously represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War and previously served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857 under President Franklin Pierce Before the American Civil War, he[...]

It stared in 1865 when Union soldiers form Michigan arrested Confederate President Jefferson Davis as he was trying to flee the country The troops are said to have confiscated millions of dollars worth of gold and silver, the Confederate war chest, that Davis was transporting They planned to smuggle it back home — almost 1,000[...]