WASHINGTON’S BIRTHDAY: Judge James D. Halyburton, of the Confederate District of Virginia, administers the inaugural oath to Nonpartisan (constitutionalist) provisional President Davis at the beginning of his constitutionally limited single six-year term as president.
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Subsequent Events:
Authority:
Confederate Constitution, Article II, Section 1 [Clauses 3 and 10]
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References:
Bruce Catton, The Civil War, (New York: American Heritage, 1960; Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1987), 287.
Calvin D. Linton, ed., The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 169.
Hudson Strode, Jefferson Davis, Volume II: Confederate President, (New York: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1959), 201-03.
Chronology Of The American Civil War
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