In a case of fake news that goes back 150 years, t...  ...accounts of the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis tended to focus on what he was wearing at the tim...  ...rendered to the Union Army at Appomattox in 1865, Davis fled from Virginia with his family, hoping to reg...  ...cording to a handful...

Jefferson Davis , the first and last President of the Confederate...  ...aves was beneficial and benevolent toward blacks. Davis claimed that this was how he managed his own plan...  ...ops raided his plantation in Mississippi in 1863. Davis 's slaves happily embraced their free...