Hello friends, welcome to the second episode in our series, Secret of the Civil War.

Stuff you probably never learned in school.

And we can't talk about the Civil War without talking about the Confederacy, right?

Like what exactly were their beliefs?

Who was even in charge down there?

We hear about Abraham Lincoln.

Who was in charge of the Confederacy?

So today's episode starts with Jefferson Davis, the man who became the president of the

states that tried to succeed.

And it may come as a surprise to you that Jefferson Davis had some successful ideas,

succeeding from the union, not one of them, but he did have success with camels.

I'm Sharon McMahon, and here's where it gets interesting.

On February 10, 1861 in Southern Mississippi, a tall and slender man in his early 50s,

poked around in his garden, tending to his strawberry plants.

Jefferson Davis had recently left his United States Senate seat, not because he'd lost

an election.

Orbin embroiled in a scandal.

But because the state he represented, Mississippi had just seceded from the union.

He referred to the day he left the Senate, January 21, 1861 as the saddest day of my life,

which were heavy words, considering that he had already lost both a wife and a child.

If you listen to our first lady series and heard our episode about Margaret Taylor, you

may remember that Jefferson Davis had married president's accretellers daughter, Sarah.

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