# Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a member of the Democratic Party, he represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War. He previously served as the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857 under President Franklin Pierce.
50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg
This is the story of the Mississippi Valley in 1862. Navy Secretary Gideon “Father Neptune” Welles is moving forward with an audacious plan. He’s sending a fleet to sack the Confederacy’s largest city, New Orleans, via the Mississippi River. Can this fleet—commanded by a Southerner loyal to the Uni…
Into ‘My Body is a Monument’
In recent weeks, the debate over monuments, street names and other relics of the Confederacy has intensified. A statue of Jefferson Davis was pulled down in Richmond, Virginia. In Louisville, Kentucky, a monument depicting a Confederate officer was removed from the city square. And on Tuesday, Miss…
46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies
“I hope to have God on my side, but I must have Kentucky.”
This is the story of the last, bare thread holding the Union together snapping. This is the start of the Civil War. US President Lincoln is giving Confederate President Jefferson Davis a difficult choice: let a peaceful, unarmed boat delive…
S8: Treasure Hunt: Confederate Gold
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In 1865, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gold. What happened next has been debate…
The Life and Times of Henry Stuart Foote (Chauncey Lecture 2019)
On July 1, 2019, Ben Wynne delivered the 2019 Hazel and Fulton Chauncey Lecture, "The Life and Times of Henry Stuart Foote, Southern Unionist and 'The Man Who Punched Jefferson Davis.'"
This lecture presents the life of antebellum politician Henry Stuart Foote (1804–1880), one of the most vocal, v…
Evans, Eli "The Jewish Confederate"
Episode 479: The Jewish Confederate
Posted on December 3, 1989 by smweiss
Eli Evans discusses the life of Judah P. Benjamin, the second Jewish man to be elected to the United States Senate and first to be offered a seat on the Supreme Court. During the Civil War he was considered to be the brains o…
6-3-2020 Liberty Round Table with Sam Bushman hr 1
* Confederate monuments toppled, damaged, burned – A statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was toppled from its pedestal in front of the namesake high school in Montgomery, Alabama, Monday night. The statue was overturned on a state holiday commemorating Jefferson Davis’ birthday. It is one o…
JAMES SWANSON, Author: BLOODY CRIMES - THE CHASE FOR JEFFERSON DAVIS AND THE DEATH PAGEANT FOR LINCOLN'S CORPSE
This week on TALK! with AUDREY: JAMES L. SWANSON is the Edgar Award winning author of the New York Times best seller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln’s Killer. Swanson joins me on the show to talk about his book BLOODY CRIMES:The Chase for Jefferson Davis -and the- Death Pageant for Lincoln’s …
Here And There 8 July, 2020 Megan Kate Nelson
The 1860s may well have been the bloodiest decade in New Mexico history. First there was Jefferson Davis’ pet project, a Confederate invasion of the territory… and then, after the rebels had been defeated, the Union Army turned on Native Americans with resultas as cruel as they were ineffectual. M…
Ukraine (thread 1), Episode 10: How Jefferson Davis Would Read the Russia‑Ukraine War
This episode contrasts William Seward’s 19th‑century view of national self‑determination with Jefferson Davis’s aristocratic theory of inherited sovereignty. It explains how Davis, as a Confederate statesman, would likely interpret the Russia‑Ukraine conflict as a struggle to defend a historic poli…
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