As time passes, history often becomes blurred. Stories are retold, facts are altered, and over generations, popular belief ...

RICHMOND, Va. (WCSC) - Jefferson Davis was elected as the first and only president of the Confederacy on Nov. 6, 1861, formalizing his role after serving as provisional president. A West Point ...

(WHSV) - 164 years ago on Nov. 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis was elected as president of the Confederate States of America. Davis’ election happened a year to the day after Abraham Lincoln was elected ...

Perhaps your history teachers failed to alert you to these Civil War facts: Jefferson Davis nearly got mugged by an angry female mob; Abraham Lincoln loved the Confederate anthem "Dixie," and Paul ...

For the first time on film, this revealing DVD presents the complete story of Jefferson Davis in three informative and entertaining full-length episodes. Jefferson Davis was the Confederate States of ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...

There are an estimated 1,300 American Civil War veterans buried in the United Kingdom. "I, as most people, was a little surprised to find out that there were veterans from the Civil War buried in ...

Dozens of people sat on the edges of their seats Saturday at the Missouri State Archives in Jefferson City as speakers detailed Civil War efforts in Missouri in late 1864. Among the speakers at a ...