* 1812 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America and 50th Governor of Georgia ( d. 1883 )

* 1821 – John C. Breckinridge, American lawyer and politician, 14th Vice President of the United States and Confederate general ( d. 1875 )

* 1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America ( b. 1812 )

* American Civil War fought between the remaining United States of America under President Abraham Lincoln and the self-declared Confederate States of America under President Jefferson Davis ( April 12, 1861 — April 9, 1865 ) and Vice President Alexander Stephens.

* February 11 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America ( d. 1883 )

* January 16 – John C. Breckinridge, United States Vice president and Confederate Secretary of State.

Vice President Andrew Johnson had taken a hard line and spoke of hanging rebel Confederates, but when he succeeded Lincoln as President, Johnson took a much softer line, pardoning many Confederate leaders and former Confederates.

In the summer of 1862, some 2, 600 Confederate troops under generals John C. Breckinridge ( the former Vice President of the United States ) and Daniel Ruggles attempted in vain to regain control of Baton Rouge.

The county is most famous for being the birthplace and home of Alexander H. Stephens, who served as a senator from Georgia in the antelbellum south, the Vice President of the Confederate States of America, and the governor of Georgia until his death.

He was Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

" He was elected to the Confederate Congress and was chosen by the Congress as Vice President of the provisional government.

* Alexander Stephens ( 1812 – 1883 ), Vice President of the Confederate States of America

Crawford Long was a member of the Demosthenian Literary Society while a student at the University of Georgia and shared a room with Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America during the American Civil War.

The March 1861 " Cornerstone Speech " of Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens even argued that Jefferson's words in the Declaration were mistaken, and that the Confederacy's new Constitution, establishing " our peculiar institution ", had rectified the error.

Confederate Vice President Don Partridge then takes office, and agrees to unconditionally surrender to the United States.

Reagan was imprisoned with Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens at Fort Warren in Boston, where Reagan spent twenty-two weeks in solitary confinement.

John C. Breckenridge, 1838: Vice President of U. S. under James Buchanan ; candidate for President of the United States | President in 1864 ; and Confederate States of America | Confederate General.

The park is named for Alexander Hamilton Stephens, the Vice President of the Confederate States of America, and a former Georgia governor.

Confederate Vice President Donald Partridge thus becomes President long enough to sign a statement of unconditional surrender, which is accepted by General Morrell on behalf of the United States.

Stampp also cited Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens ' A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States as an example of a Southern leader who said that slavery was the " cornerstone of the Confederacy " when the war began and then said that the war was not about slavery but states ' rights after Southern defeat.

* Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederate States of America, was interred for a time at Oakland before being moved to his estate near Crawfordville.

On February 3, 1865, near Fort Monroe in Newport News, Virginia, aboard a ship, the River Queen, President Abraham Lincoln and Secretary of State William H. Seward, representing the United States government, met with Vice President Alexander H. Stephens, Senator Robert M. T. Hunter, and Assistant Secretary of War John A. Campbell, representing the Confederate States of America ( CSA ).

Breckinridge was born in Paris, France to a wealthy California family, the great-great-great-grandson of U. S. Attorney General John Breckinridge ( and the great-grandson of both U. S. Vice President and Confederate general John C. Breckinridge and Wells Fargo Bank founder Lloyd Tevis ).

Considered by Confederate President Jefferson Davis to be the finest general officer in the Confederacy before the emergence of Robert E. Lee, he was killed early in the Civil War at the Battle of Shiloh and was the highest-ranking officer, Union or Confederate, killed during the entire war.

Early in the Civil War, Confederate President Jefferson Davis decided that the Confederacy would attempt to hold as much of its territory as possible and he distributed its military forces around its borders and coasts.

* 1863 – American Civil War: following his defeat in the Battle of Gettysburg, General Robert E. Lee sends a letter of resignation to Confederate President Jefferson Davis ( which is refused upon receipt ).

On April 14, 1865, President Lincoln was shot and mortally wounded by John Wilkes Booth, a Confederate sympathizer, who conspired to coordinate assassinations of others, including Johnson, Ulysses S. Grant and Secretary of State William H. Seward that same night.

Shortly after Lincoln's death, Gen. William T. Sherman reported he had, without consulting Washington, reached an armistice agreement with Confederate Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, an agreement which was unacceptable to the President and outraged Stanton, since it made no provision for emancipation of slaves or freedmen's rights.

* 1865 – American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis and most of his Cabinet flee the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia.

* 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

* 1862 – Jefferson Davis is officially inaugurated for a six-year term as the President of the Confederate States of America in Richmond, Virginia.

* 1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected the Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by the Confederate convention at Montgomery, Alabama.

* 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.

President Abraham Lincoln carried a harmonica in his pocket, and harmonicas provided solace to soldiers on both the Union and Confederate sides of the American Civil War.

* 1808 – Jefferson Davis, American politician, President of the Confederate States of America ( d. 1889 )

No conclusive proof has linked Booth's kidnapping or assassination plots to a conspiracy involving the leadership of the Confederate government, although historians such as David Herbert Donald have said, " It is clear that, at least at the lower levels of the Southern secret service, the abduction of the Union President was under consideration ".

Jefferson Finis Davis ( June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889 ) was an American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, serving as President of the Confederate States of America for its entire history.

On February 9, 1861, after Davis resigned from the United States Senate, he was selected to be the provisional President of the Confederate States of America ; he was elected without opposition to a six-year term that November.

Jefferson Davis is sworn in as President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol.

Davis " was the champion of a slave society and embodied the values of the planter class, and thus was chosen Confederate President by acclamation.

President Davis met with his Confederate Cabinet for the last time on May 5, 1865, in Washington, Georgia, and the Confederate government was officially dissolved.