HomeMetro/State/NationOn this day in Alabama history: the Confederate States of America was established
Lithograph shows a crowd gathered in front of the capitol building in Montgomery at the time of the announcement of Jefferson Davis as the first President of the Confederate States of America, c. 1888. Also shown with Davis are Stephens; Wm. L. Yancey, Leader of the Secession Party, and Howell Cobb, president of the Senate.
On this day in Alabama history: the Confederate States of America was established
Group portrait of the Confederate cabinet including President Jefferson Davis, Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Attorney General Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of the Navy Stephen M. Mallory, Secretary of the Treasury C.S. Memminger, Secretary of War Leroy Pope Walker, Postmaster John H. Reagan, and Secretary of State Robert Toombs, seated and standing around table. 1861. (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs .
Delegates from South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, and Louisiana met in Montgomery to establish the Confederate States of America. Known as the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, the legislature, soon joined by Texas, drafted a provisional constitution that was unanimously adopted on February 8 and selected Jefferson Davis as president and Alexander H. Stephens as vice president. The legislature remained in Montgomery until May 21 and held its remaining sessions in Richmond, Va., until November 8, when it was replaced by a newly-elected permanent government.
Lithograph shows a crowd gathered in front of the capitol building in Montgomery at the time of the announcement of Jefferson Davis as the first President of the Confederate States of America, c. 1888. Also shown with Davis are Stephens; Wm. L. Yancey, Leader of the Secession Party, and Howell Cobb, president of the Senate.
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William Kennedy
Great.
Brentwood Campbell
Gotta love Treason
Randy Pardue
Some might want to research the 10th amendment.
Paul Pale Coney
One of the greatest days in history.
Paul Tucker
Birmingham and Chicago wouldn’t be so alike had a separate country been formed… IJS
Khalia Kennedy
You’re right. Birmingham would be worst because slavery would still be an institution 🙃
Paul Tucker
that’s a lot of assumptions…remember when Birmingham and Chicago were both great American cities?…
Matthew Richardson
Bahahaha You mean like how The Founding Fathers were traitors to England?