Jefferson Davis: An American President

Jefferson Davis was the Confederate States of America's first and only president. But what few people realize is that he had already lived half a century before the Civil War began - much of which was spent in patriotic service to the United States of America.

As an Army officer, congressman, Secretary of War and two-term Mississippi senator, Davis was instrumental in founding the Smithsonian Institution, and was largely responsible for the current design of the United States Capitol.

The records consist of drafts, galley proofs, revisions, page proofs, typescripts, and reviews of the published volumes of The Papers of Jefferson Davis.