The Confederate capital of Richmond lies a mere 100 miles south of the United States capital of Washington, D.C. The distance is a bit deceptive, as Richmond is protected to the North and East by major rivers, swamps and marshes. Yet as the war drags on and the Union Army accumulates more victories and swells…
In the wake of the demoralizing setbacks of the past two weeks in Tennessee — and in acknowledgment of the recent termination of the South’s provisional government and the formal installing of a permanent Confederate government — today is a day of national prayer and thanksgiving throughout the Confederate States of America, as proclaimed by…
Today Jefferson Davis (a Kentucky native, like Abraham Lincoln) is elected as president of the Confederate States of America, following his service to this point as provisional president. The November election is confirmed in February, when electors from the Confederate States – each state having the same numbers of electors as they have members in…