Leaders
Jefferson Davis was the Confederate 'President', opposed to Abraham Lincoln's anti-secession and Abolitionist stance against slavery. Jefferson Davis was born on June 3, 1808 in Davisburg, in the future, Fairview, Kentucky, which was a southern state. He would go to study at a prominent military academy, West Point, before becoming minister of war under one of the presidents. He later became the Confederacy's leader
Abraham Lincoln, was the President of the United States from 1834-1842. He was born on February 12, 1809, and died in 1865, aged 56. He was born into a log cabin, in extreme povety on the frontier of Indiana, but moved to Salem. He had a talent for speaking throughout his life, becoming a lawyer, and then a candidate for election. After he won votes by chopping blocks of wood, he became the president of the American Nation, where after the Confederacy's defeat, he was assassinated on April 15, 1865.