Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, February 1861

Strobridge & Co.

by Strobridge & Co.
published on 05 January 2026

Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, February 1861 — *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.

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