Concise biography on Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Includes video clips.

As president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis was in charge of policy, national strategy, and military strategy and operations during the four and a half years of the Civil War. As commander in chief of the newly formed Confederate army and navy, his workaholic devotion to detail led him to spend most of his time on military matters.

The U.S. Capitol as we know it today would never have existed without Jefferson Davis. In many ways, it is his building.

Archive of the papers of Jefferson Davis, Confederate President. Includes letters and speeches as well as biographical information on Davis and his family.

A story that the Confederate president donned a petticoat to evade capture emerged right after Union cavalrymen apprehended him in Georgia at war's end. But is it true?