The Henry Clay Desk has been assigned to the senior senator from Kentucky since 1999. The resolution formalizing that was ...

Mississippi celebrates the birthday of Confederate President Jefferson Davis on Memorial Day. Here's what to know about the ...

Jefferson Davis' birthday is one of three confederate holidays in Alabama. See when it is observed and what closures will happen.

Mississippi observes Jefferson Davis' birthday, combined with Memorial ... seceding from the Union four years later. By October of 1861, he was president of the Confederate States of America.

We have already exposed some of the sophistries which abound in the message of JEFFERSON DAVIS to his Congress of Confederates. The document, however, is too important to be dismissed without ...

Tate Reeves signed a proclamation on April 17, noting the war started this month in 1861. It was the deadliest ... for Confederate President Jefferson Davis on the first Monday in June, but ...

Sam’s time in Nevada was from 1861 to 1864. In May of 1865 when the Appeal first ... including the capture of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederate Stats of America. In those days, even as ...

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Jefferson Davis, the man who would eventually become ... that his home state officially voted to leave the union in January 1861, he decided to stick by his state, rather than his country.

Davis at Jefferson City, Grant again returns to St ... had a respite since the eventful firing upon Fort Sumter, in April, 1861, to the present day . . . I have been the subject of abuse and ...