Jefferson Davis is sworn in as president of the Confederacy on the steps of the Alabama Capitol building in Montgomery after seven states had formed that new government. Many of them predicted the war would last a month. Four years and hundreds of thousands of deaths later, it ended with a loss.
President Andrew Johnson pardoned Jefferson Davis on Christmas Day in 1868 as part of a general amnesty for all Confederates. The pardon restored civil rights and property rights, and provided immunity from treason charges.
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