Jefferson Davis

This carte de visite, which was a popular version of a small photograph at the time, refers to a story that Jefferson Davis was captured dressed as a woman. The image depicts Davis being caputured by two Union soldiers while two women and an African American man look on. 

 

On January 21, 1861, in a scene of high drama, Mississippi Senator Jefferson Davis and four southern colleagues rose on the Senate floor to offer final remarks before withdrawing from the body and returning home to their states.

Officials from the South had long supported states’…

 

Summary from the Library of Congress: 

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