The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States, chromolithograph by Strobridge & Co., c. 1878.
Depicted here is the inauguration of Jefferson Davis as the provisional president of the Confederate States of America in Montgomery, Alabama, on 18 February 1861.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
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