Jefferson Davis (1808-1889) Papers, PC.1085

Papers relating to Davis, U.S senator from Mississippi, secretary of war (1853-1857), and president of the Confederacy, including his letters to President Polk (1847) and John H. Wheeler (1854) about military appointments and leaves; official letter (1861) to Hon. Weldon N. Edwards, president of Secession Convention in Raleigh, acknowledging receipt of ordinance turning over Fayetteville Arsenal to Confederacy; letter (1877) about his finances, the election of 1876, and Civil War history by the count of Paris; letters and copies of letters from Davis and his family to North Carolina friends and admirers (1879-1906), including Franklin P. McIntire, James A. Briggs, and their former free Negro coachman, James H. Jones; and lithograph of Davis's letter on centennial of North Carolina's ratification of the U.S. Constitution (1889). Also letters patent for Davis as justice of the peace in Mississippi (1851); copy of petition to President Johnson from ladies of Raleigh for release of Davis from prison (Dec., 1865); lithograph of bail bond for Davis and others (1867); and clippings about memorials to Davis and about James H. Jones.

Davis, Jefferson

Wheeler, John H.

Edwards, Weldon N.

Polk, James K. (James Knox), 1795-1849

Davis family

Count of Paris

McIntire, Franklin P.

Briggs, James A.

Jones, James H.

Johnson, Andrew

Confederate States of America

United States. War Department

Secession Convention (Raleigh)

Fayetteville Arsenal

United States. Congress. Senate

United States. Constitution

Presidents

Appointments and Retirements

Leaves

Elections

Freedmen

African Americans

Justices of the Peace

Women in war

Prisoners

Prisoners of war

Ratification

Memorials

Centennial Celebrations

Bail

Finance, Personal

Mississippi

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865

Raleigh (N.C.)