The seceded states created the Confederate States of America and elected Jefferson Davis, a Mississippi Senator, as their provisional president. In his inaugural address, delivered on March 4 ...

Jefferson Davis was the U.S. Secretary of War who betrayed his country to become the first and only president of the Confederate States of America. Davis sent men into battle to preserve the right to ...

South Carolina is one of only four states to observe the day as a state holiday, celebrating the lives of soldiers who fought ...

The last Monday of April in Mississippi and Alabama May 10 in N.C. and S.C. The holiday is used to remember those who died fighting for the Confederate States of America during the Civil War and ...