1. Jefferson Davis
and the confederacy of
the United States
By Eric Vetch

2. The president of the Confederacy

3. Family Life
• Youngest of 10 kids
• 25 years difference between
• Jefferson and Joseph
• Benjamin, Samuel, Anna
• Isaac, Lucinda, Amanda
• Matilda, Marry Ellen

4. Youth• Born in Louisiana on June 3rd 1808
• Named after Thomas Jefferson
• Moved to Mississippi at a very young age
• Went to Jr. High and High School

5. Teenager
• Moved to Lexington Kentucky
• Soon after father died when 16
• His older brother became a father figure

6. Military academy
• Davis older brother Joseph
• Helped get him into West Point
• West point was a military academy
• That trained young men to be officers

7. Military Career
After Graduation Davis was commissioned as a Second Lt.
• 1st Infantry Regiment
• Fort Crawford
• Michigan
• Under Zachary Taylor
• Black Hawk war

8. Family Life
• Met Sarah Knox Taylor
• Daughter of Zachary Taylor
• Moved to Hurricane plantation
• After “battle”
• Owned many slaves
• Was good to them
• After three months of marriage
• Sarah died of Malaria

9. Second Marriage
• Remarried
• Varina Howell
• Had six kids
• Very close to all of his kids
• Jeff Jr. Samuel, Joseph
• Varian, William, Margret
• Buried 4 children during his lifetime
• Has living decedents
• internet

10. Davis the Representative
• Served from
• 1845 to 1846
• Resigned in 1846
• To fight in Mex American War

11. Mexican American war
• 155th volunteer infantry regiment
• Under General Taylor
• Battle of Monterrey
• Battle of Buena Vista
• With distinction
• Promotion to Brid. General
• Turned down to fill senate seat

12. Sen Davis
• Served 2 years
• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
• Committee on Military affairs
• Regent of Smithsonian Inst.

13. Sec of War
Franklin Admin
1853- 1857
Trans. Cont. Railroad
Gadsden Purchase
Increased Military Pay

14. Return to senate
• Very controversial time
• Wilmot proviso
• Compromise of 1850

15. Election of 1860
• Breckinridge, TN D
• Lincoln, IL R
• Stephens, IL D
• Bell , TN Const.Union

16. The Winner was

17. Jefferson Davis

18. The Confederacy of America
Made up FL AL LA MS GA TX
Met in Montgomery Al
ratified const.
elected Davis Pres.
Designed Flag

19. Attack on Ft. Sumpter
• After attack
• Ak, Tn NC SC joined

20. Confederacy of America
• 1861 – 1865
• Made of up TX LA AL SC
• Relied on Cotton
• Plantations galore

21. The constitution of the Confederacy
• Mirrored the const. of the US
• Except the right to secede
• Esp. the border states
• Including civil liberties

22. Confederacy of America
• House of Reps elected every 2 years on odd numbered years
• Senate elected every 6 years
• President elected 6 years could not be re elected

24. agenda
• Appointed Gen Beauregard to Lead army

25. Jefferson and Technology
• Telegraph
• Railroad
• To send messages
• And send troops
• Problem
• Union cut wires, train tracks,
• bridges

26. Economy

27. His Cabinet

28. Alexander Stephens
• Vice president
• And speaker of the House
• Ex wig member
• Democrat from GA

29. Robert Toombs
• Secretary of State
• 1853 – 1861
• GA (D)
• House of reps 1838 -1844
• Senate 1845 – 1853
• Laywer

30. Christopher Mermminger
• Sec of treasury
• SC
• Laywer, state legisltor

31. Stephen Mallory
• Sec of Navy

32. Judah P. Benjamin
• Attorney General

33. Leroy Walker
• Sec of war

34. His Generals
• General Lee
• General Jackson
• Gen Bourgard

35. Generals
• General Lee
• From Virginia
• West point
• Received offer from Union
• Defended Virginia

36. generals
• Stone wall Jackson
• Got his name from

37. General Beauregard
• First leader of the army
• from

40. The battles
• Virgina
• Troops
• Kia
• Officers involved

41. Bull run

45. Gettysburg

46. Turning Point Gettysburg

47. Number of slaves in states
• Total of around 4 million slaves in 1860
• VA 491,000 AL 435,000 MS 436,000
• GA 462,000 LA 332,000 SC 402,000

48. Le Traitor
• His presidency ended May 5, 1865.
• May 10, 1865, federal troops captured him at Irwinville, Georgia.
• From 1865 to 1867 he was imprisoned at Fortress Monroe, Virginia.
• Davis was indicted for treason in 1866
• the next year was released on a bond of $100,000,
• by the Horace Greeley and other influential Northerners.
• In 1868, the federal government dropped the case

49. Surrender
• Appomaox Court House

50. Lincoln’s death
Fords theater April 14, 1864
Our American Cousin
John Wilks Booth
Yelled out “Sic Semper Tyrannies”
“Thus always to tyrants”
Jumped
Broke leg

51. Not really the end
• Attacks/ raids against the north
• Very bitter about outcome of the war

52. The flags of the confederacy
and their meaning
• This is a battle flag
• The stars represent the
• Confederate states

53. flags
• This was a flag that represented
• The seven original states
• Of the confederacy
• The design was changed
• Looked like the Union flag

54. flags
• Looks too much like a surrender flag

55. Flags of the confederacy
• A red bar was added

56. Flags continued
• Called stars and bars
• Square not rectangle

57. The controversial flag
• What does it mean to you?

58. In death
• Died on

59. Funeral precession
• New Orleans
• Sunday May 28, 1889
• To Richmond Virginia

60. The end

61. Any questions?

62. Bibliography
• http://www.civil-war.net/pages/1860_census.html