JEFFERSON DAVIS 

Quotes

·       ‘‘All we ask is to be let alone.’’ ·       “I worked night and day for twelve years to prevent the war, but I could not. The North was mad and blind, would not let us govern ourselves, and so the war came.”·       “Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.’’

He was the youngest of ten children in the

family

Graduated from West Point 

 the next seven years were spent in different army posts

he fought in the Blackhawk war

then fought in the Mexican-American War

Mexican

Mexican

 American

WAR

he then became a US Senator

from Mississippi

He didn't believe in Mississippi seceding.

He thought that every state had the right to secede

 he was elected president of the confederate states in

1860

confederate flag

The states in solid red fought for the Confederacy

The shaded states had slaves.

MissouriKentucky

old confederate postage stamp

he was supposed to be president 6 years....

He Led the Confederacy in the Civil war with 

General Robert E. Lee

May 10, 1865

May 10, 1865

he was captured

he was bailed out by the

south and the north

After the civil war he was arrested for treason

He died at age 81 of unknown causes

He believed in a peaceful confederacy

He believed in a peaceful confederacy

NO WAR

Legacy

 Jefferson Davis helped the confederate states have a sense of pride and unity when it was needed a lot. That pride and unity remains to

day!

Current Mississippi flag 

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