The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun. Immediately following the attack, four ...

The Supreme Court may look to a case from the Civil War to resolve whether former ... ruled that defeated rebel Confederate President Jefferson Davis should not face prosecution for treason.

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 ...

The Jefferson Davis statue will no longer cast a shadow on the University Texas main mall after its removal Sunday morning. In light of a racist shooting in South Carolina, the University of Texas ...

The American Civil War ... leading up to the war and what caused divisions. The White House of the Confederacy, nearby Tredegar, is the former home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.

A statue of Confederate president Jefferson Davis was torn down by protesters ... celebrate racism and tell a false narrative of the Civil War, and in the case of Columbus and other colonial ...