Essay Archive - Jefferson Davis: Leader of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis: Leader of the Confederacy
Just before daybreak on April 12, 1861, the first shot of the Civil
war was aimed at fort Sumter. The people of Charleston came out to watch as
the war began. Lincoln immediately declared that the Confederate states
were in a state of legal rebellion of the U.S. government. Little did
Charleston know that this happy little war that they would all come out to
watch would claim the lives of 360,000 Union members and 260,000
Confederate members and the total over 20 billion dollars. The Civil War
was the gre....
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