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Jefferson Davis' First Inaugural Address. Alabama Capitol, Montgomery, February 18, 1861. Gentlemen of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, Friends and Fellow-Citizens: Called to the difficult and responsible station of Chief Executive of the Provisional Government which you have instituted, I approach the discharge of the duties ...
Jefferson Davis, Senator from Mississippi and former Secretary of War, publicly resigned his Senate seat during an emotional farewell address to Congress on January 21, 1861, only days after his home state had seceded from the Union.
Inaugural Address of the President of the Provisional Government. February 18, 1861. Jefferson Davis gave his inaugural address (as "provisional" President) on February 18, 1861. Source: The Jefferson Davis Project at Rice University.
Nov 21, 2023 · Confederate President Jefferson Davis ' inaugural address was given in fifteen minutes on February 18th, 1861, in Montgomery, Alabama. Written in fifteen minutes the night before, it was a...
In a state of poor health and with grave doubts about his ability to serve as president and about the South’s ability to fight a war, Davis delivered his Inaugural Address on February 18, 1861.
Delivered from the East Portico of the federal Capitol, Lincoln’s First Inaugural Address sought to calm and pacify southerners by convincing them that they had nothing to fear from a Republican administration.
Jefferson Davis's Inaugural Address. Montgomery, Alabama.
