ocr: Characters Geffysburg Index Jefferson Davis (1808-89) was Help a member of the House of Exit Representatives 1843-6) and Back then served two terms as a senators (1847-51 and 1857-61). .Leader of the Southern Democrats, he resigned from his post to assume the command of the troops of Mississippi and on February 9,1 1861,became President Bookmark of the Confederate States of the South. After the surrender of General Lee, he tried to reach the Southern forces on the other side of the Mississippi but was captured at Irwinville on May 10 and tried for high treason. He was granted amnesty in 1868 a ...
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