The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator ... Federal troops returned the fire. The Civil War had begun.

There have been plenty of Trials of the Century in American history, but the prosecution of Jefferson ... when the Civil War broke out. When pressed to explain why they were helping Davis, who ...

Lincoln went to the Confederate White House and rested in Jefferson Davis’s office chair. Indeed, high drama marked the Civil ... burned during the Union’s prosecution of “total war ...

He served briefly in the Mexican-American War and as an observer to the Crimean War. At the outbreak of the Civil War ... of Confederate President Jefferson Davis (the former federal secretary ...

Deciding who is a hero certainly depends on one’s point of view. During the Civil War, spy operations were instrumental in ...