Click 👉TODAY IN HISTORY (general history) Feb. 9.
ON THIS DAY IN CONFEDERATE HISTYR, Feb. 9.
1861: Jefferson Davis of Mississippi was unanimously elected Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Provisional Confederate Congress in session at Montgomery, Alabama. Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia was elected vice president of the Confederacy. President Davis was born in 1809 in Kentucky, the son of a Revolutionary War veteran Samuel Davis. He moved with his family to Louisiana, briefly, then to Mississippi at an early age. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. in 1824. He served as a second lieutenant in the Black Hawk War and married Sarah Taylor, daughter of Colonel Zachary Taylor. He left the army and his wife died just three months after the marriage. Davis ran a plantation in Mississippi for 10 years and was then elected to Congress just before the Mexican-American War he married his second wife, Varina Howell in 1845. Resigning from Congress, he became colonel of the famous Mississippi Rifles which he led in that war. Wounded at the Battle of Buena Vista, Mexico, he returned home a war hero. Davis was elected from Mississippi to the U.S. Senate. In 1853, he became Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. Davis returned to the Senate at the end of the Pierce administration and served until Mississippi seceded in 1861.
Also on this day, the Confederate Congress adopted the laws of the United States that did not conflict with the Confederate laws.
1864: At Libby prisoner of war prison in Richmond, Virginia, 109 prisoners escape. Of those who escaped 48 were recaptured, two were drowned, and 58 reached the Federal lines.
1865: Carolinas Campaign: Confederates skirmish with Sherman's federals in South Carolina at Binnaker's Bridge on the South Edisto River, and Holman's Bridge.
CONFEDERATE GENERAL BIRTHDAYS, Feb. 9.
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