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Jefferson Davis, (born June 3, 1808, Christian county, Ky., U.S.—died Dec. 6, 1889, New Orleans, La.), U.S. political leader, president of the Confederate States of America (1861–65). He graduated from West Point and served as a lieutenant in the Wisconsin Territory and later in the Black Hawk War. In 1835 he became a planter in Mississippi.
The main statement that Jefferson was trying to make in his 1801 Inaugural Address was that there were no divisions in the country--"We were both Federalists and Republicans." This was highly ...
16 de feb. de 2024 · Jefferson Davis’ Inaugural Address. Posted: 2/16/24. BY: The Civil War Monitor. SMITH: The Iron Dice of Battle (2023) WALLACE: The Battle of Little Bighorn (2023) The Civil War Monitor is a quarterly magazine devoted to portraying American Civil War history from a variety of perspectives.
First Inaugural Address, 4 March 1801. III. First Inaugural Address. Friends & Fellow Citizens, Called upon to undertake the duties of the first Executive office of our country, I avail myself of the presence of that portion of my fellow citizens which is here assembled to express my grateful thanks for the favor with which they have been ...
18 de feb. de 2010 · In his Inaugural Address of February 1861 delivered in Montgomery, Alabama, President Jefferson Davis declared: “We have assembled to usher into existence the Permanent Government of the Confederate States. Through this instrumentality, under the favor of Divine Providence, we hope to perpetuate the principles of our revolutionary fathers. . . .
Let us, then, fellow-citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained ...
New York, 1861–1868, I, Document 37. Remembering the American Civil War - Presidential Documents, Memory, Legacy: As a senator from Mississippi in the pre-Civil War period and the secretary of war for Democrat Franklin Pierce between 1853 and 1857, Jefferson Davis was one of the influential politicians of his time.
