Davis Jefferson

Davis

Jefferson 1808-1889

American soldier and president of the Confederacy (1861-1865). He was captured by Union soldiers in 1865 and imprisoned for two years, and although he was indicted for treason in 1866, he was never prosecuted.

Jefferson Davis

photographed between 1855 and 1865

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