Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?

Question

If anyone can give me some important facts about either Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Also anyfacts about then before during and after the civil war....thanks

Answer 1

Davis served in the US Congress and Senate as Representative from Mississippi.
Davis served in the Mexican War of 1848 as did most of the war generals of the 1861-65 conflict.
Lincoln was an indianian fighter during the Blackhawk war in Indiana
Lincoln wrote poetry and was a published poet.
Davis was captured near Adel Georgia in 1865 while trying to evade yankee troops who thought he was trying to steal the confederate gold bullion. The gold was never found. Or reported if it was.
Lincoln was in a duel where cow pies were used as the weapons of choice.

Answer 2

Lincoln was President of the North - Davis - President of the South.
Davis ran away after the War and lived like royalty in France (there go those French again.) Lincoln was assassinated.
It will be very easy to look up this info instead of asking others to do your work for you. I must have at least 20 books on Lincoln (and I've read them). I'm not overly fond of Davis hence do not know all that much about him except even Robert E. Lee considered him a bozo.

Answer 3

Lincoln was a lawyer, anti-war activist and politician. He served as a militia captain during the Blackhawk War in 1832. He was a veteran of the Illinois state legislature and in 1846 was elected to the US House of Representatives. He, obviously, has no post-war career.

Davis was a soldier and saw service fighting Indians in Wisconsin and in the Mexican War. He too was a politician, a US Representative from Mississippi and then a US Senator, where he served on influential committees. He was made Franklin Pierce's Secretary of War. After the war, he was imprisoned for two years, but was freed by the influence of prominent individuals like Vanderbilt and Greeley. After being freed, he started an insurance company, tried to run for US Senate and wrote several books.

Answer 4

The Viking warrior (Thorfinn_Skullsplitter? A little out of place these days, isn't it?) has a very good answer. Just as a point of complete trivia, when Davis was Secretary of War he was responsible for issuing to the troops the first boots with a left and a right foot. Up until then, they were symmetric, with either boot assured of not fitting whichever foot you put it on. Not for that reason, many consider him still possibly the best Secretary of War or Defense we've ever had.

Answer 5

Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865, just after the end of the civil war. He was shot by John Wilkes Booth in the Ford theater while attending a play of "Our American Cousin" with his wife, Mary Todd Lincoln. Booth was furious that Lincoln was in support of giving blacks the right to vote.

Answer 6

Jefferson Davis was the president of South and pro-slavery and pro-separation

Abraham Lincoln wanted to send Africans back to Africa (which isn't taught in school). Lincoln was president of the north. Nicknamed "Honest Abe" and very tall.

Answer 7

After the war, Jefferson Davis was captured and taken to Fort Monroe, and confined for two years. Mr. Davis was indicted for treason by a grand jury in the U.S. court for the district of Virginia, sitting at Norfolk under Judge Underwood.
On May 13th, 1867 Davis was brought before the court at Richmond on a writ of habeus corpus, and given bail for $100,000. He then went to; New York, Montreal,Canada, then in the summer of 1868, England and France. He returned to his country, and accepted a job as president of a life insurance company in Memphis, Tenn.

"Contentious and unapologetic, Davis spent years compliling his version of events. In 'The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881), he refought the war, castigating officers like (P.G.T.) Beauregard and (Joseph E.) Johnston for the Confederacy's defeat. He lived the rest of his life in Mississippi, never seeking the restoration of his citizenship. (It was finally restored by President Jimmy Carter.)"

Answer 8

Jefferson Davis is a distant relative to Barack Obama.

Answer 9

In theory Davis was a states' rights man, but when he got to be president of the CSA he was frustrated with the states hobbling the central government, and he claimed they hurt the war effort. Like the current president and so many before, his greatest priority was more power for himself, and political principles be damned.

Answer 10

Well they wer both born in Kentucky.Davis was secretary of war ,senator of Mississippi.Lincoln was a lawyer ,congressman,lost races for the senate in Illinois.