The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

In short order, Lee’s men retreated west, Jefferson Davis ... after parading for two days down Pennsylvania Avenue. An estimated 750,000 Americans died in the Civil War from battle wounds ...

Two were recovered after the American Civil War at the confederate spy headquarters in Canada. The other one was found on Confederate President Jefferson Davis' desk that he was using as a ...

This anecdote reflects a historiographical debate about the Civil ... after the war, many influential Confederates blamed southern defeat on the manifold failures of President Jefferson Davis.

There have been plenty of Trials of the Century in American history, but the prosecution of Jefferson ... when the Civil War broke out. When pressed to explain why they were helping Davis, who ...

electing Jefferson Davis as its president. On April 12, 1861, barely a month after Lincoln took office, Confederate forces fired on Union troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and the Civil War ...

Scores of high-spirited civilians carried picnic baskets and champagne to the battlefield to watch what would turn out to be the first major land engagement of the Civil War. Shown here is the ...