Jefferson Davis became elected as the president for the Confederate States of America. He was secretary of war and U.S. senator in 1850. Davis graduated from West Point as an army officer; he served served in the protection of settlers going out west, colonel of the First Mississippi Regiment and fought in the Mexican War. He grew up in a slave society where slavery and servitude, was viewed as a normal way of life. He defended the institution as a moral way of life, as it Americanized, civilized and promoted Christianity for blacks. He believed that the Confederacy was the American way of life and that Lincoln would destroy it. Davis always viewed the war to be about states’ rights and not about slavery. In his Speech in the U.S. Senate, January
