. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . [2S6]. / Br ■ -Mm Jr \Tm\ mmWmm. \ Jfl / 1 ■* :•. ■ ...• 1 - :^HL^_ ijSiii-** St • jM SBEf V >^^P^^r ** 1 .. \ REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY, WITH HIS WIFE THE FIRST OF SEVEN SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS This picture, made from an old daguerreotype, forms as true a document of Jefferson Davis humanside as his letter concerning Grant on page 290. Davis was born in Kentucky the year before college education began in that State. In 1842 he entered West Point. Army service p
. The photographic history of the Civil War : in ten volumes . [2S6]. / Br ■ -Mm Jr \Tm\ mmWmm. \ Jfl / 1 ■* :•. ■ ...• 1 - :^HL^_ ijSiii-** St • jM SBEf V >^^P^^r ** 1 .. \ REVIEW OF REVIEWS CO. THE FUTURE PRESIDENT OF THE CONFEDERACY, WITH HIS WIFE THE FIRST OF SEVEN SCENES FROM THE LIFE OF JEFFERSON DAVIS This picture, made from an old daguerreotype, forms as true a document of Jefferson Davis humanside as his letter concerning Grant on page 290. Davis was born in Kentucky the year before college education began in that State. In 1842 he entered West Point. Army service provedhis ability to command. In the Mexican War he won distinction as colonel of the First MississippiVolunteers by the famous reentering angle at Buena Vista. As Senator from Mississippi andSecretary of War under President Pierce, he became the accepted leader of the Southern party intheir insistence on the doctrine of States rights. His unanimous election as President of the Con-federacy on February 8, 1861, by the Congress at Montgomery, Alabama, was
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