In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis, former U. S. Senator from Mississippi, is installed as the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Southern Baptist minister Basil Manly, Sr., chaplain during the convention proceedings that in recent days birthed the Confederate States of America, opens the inauguration ceremonies in front of the capitol.…
Meeting in Montgomery, Alabama, delegates from the seven seceded Deep South slave states – South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Texas – officially form the Confederate States of America. With this act, the likelihood of open warfare between the South and the North is effectively sealed. The seceding states draft a provisional constitution…
In Montgomery, Alabama, delegates to the Deep South slaveholding states’ convention work in earnest to establish the legal and judicial basis of the new Confederate States of America, as well as to select a president for the new nation. The preservation of African (black) slavery is foundational and central to the identity of the Confederacy.…