February 26, Jefferson Davis, after winning election to the U. House of Representatives, marries Varina Howell. June 18, Jefferson Davis, after leaving Congress at the start of the Mexican War, is elected colonel of the 1st Mississippi Regiment. February 23, Jefferson Davis, serving under his former father-in-law, Zachary Taylor, at the Battle of Buena Vista during the Mexican War, is wounded and wins national acclaim for helping to repulse a charge by Mexican lances.
Taylor, who had disapproved of Davis's marriage to his daughter, now praises Davis. December 6, Jefferson Davis, a hero of the Mexican War, is selected by the governor of Mississippi to fill a vacant seat in the U. November 4, Jefferson Davis is defeated in his run for Mississippi governor.
March 4, Jefferson Davis ends his tenure as secretary of war and returns to the U. February 9, Jefferson Davis is elected provisional president of the newly formed Confederate States of America by a convention in Montgomery, Alabama. February 18, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional president of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama, declaring that the "South is determined to maintain her position, and make all who oppose her smell Southern powder and feel Southern steel.
November 6, Jefferson Davis is elected to one six-year term as president of the Confederate States of America. June 1, , 2 p. April 30, Five-year-old Joseph E. Davis, son of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, is mortally injured in a fall from the balcony of the Confederate White House in Richmond. April 2—3, Confederate president Jefferson Davis evacuates Richmond ahead of Union forces and travels to Danville. Part of his bail is posted by the abolitionist Horace Greeley. June 3, The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government , former Confederate president Jefferson Davis's two-volume defense of his actions and principles, is published.
Collins, Donald E. The Death and Resurrection of Jefferson Davis. Cooper, William J. Jefferson Davis, American. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Davis, Jefferson. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. New York: D. Appleton and Company, Skip to main content. You are here Home » Biographies. Jefferson Davis. After the war Davis was capture at Irwinville.
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Starving, dehydrated, and desperate, he is the first European to set foot on the soil of the future Lone Star state.
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