The last days of the Confederate Government, the conclusion of the American Civil War. Jefferson Davis sat at the roadside, signing papers which his secretary of state Mr. Benjamin is handing to him. This was possibly the last official business carried out by the Confederate cabinet. Jefferson Finis Davis, 1808 – 1889. American politician who served as the only President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. From The Illustrated London News, published 1865.

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