The Burt-Stark Mansion is known for its historical significance as Confederate president Jefferson Davis' last council of war ...

On Nov. 6, 1861, Jefferson Davis, who had been elected president of the Provisional Government of the Confederacy on February 9, 1861, as a compromise between moderates and radicals, was confirmed by ...

The past several columns have been about "Heroes of the Confederacy" -- men and women who persevered during good times and bad, who believed that their cause was just, and whose primary concern was ...

In this ingenious account, biographer Hamilton (War and Peace) surveys “the warring minds and hearts” of Abraham Lincoln and Confederate commander-in-chief Jefferson Davis during the first two years ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...