Portrait photo circa 1860 of Jefferson Davis (1808 - 1889) - President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865.
Portrait photo circa 1860 of Jefferson Davis. Davis (1808 - 1889) was the President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865 during the American Civil War. Prior to that he served in the military - fighting in the Mexican-American War as colonel of a volunteer regiment - and was the US Secretary of War (1853 - 1857) under President Franklin Pierce. Davis was held as a prisoner and charged with treason after the civil war ended but was eventually released and the case against him was dropped in 1869. Photo by Mathew B Brady.
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