Jefferson Davis was the only president of The Confederate States of America. He led a fruitful life as a planter, revolutionary war soldier, and later the U.S. Secretary of War. Eventually he was inaugurated by the people of Alabama as the new president of the Confederate States. He could not, however, hold up the overwhelming task of managing the new country and the ever advancing Union Army. He was eventually captured and imprisoned for two years on 1865. Afterwards, he and his family traveled to Europe and then back to the South living a relatively peaceful life until his death on December 6, 1889.