2-356-067 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, Montgomery, Alabama, 1861 (c1880). Davis was named Provisional President of the Confederate States of America by a Constitutional convention in Montgomery, Alabama, on 9th February 1861. He was inaugurated on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol nine days later. A print from Cassell's History of the United States, by Edmund Ollier, Volume III, Cassell Petter and Galpin, London, c1880.