Jefferson Davis was a two-time senator and Secretary of War before being inaugurated President of the Confederate States of America on February 22, 1861.The first White House was moved from Alabama to this Richmond mansion when Virginia ceded the Union a few months later. Davis and his family lived here. During his residency, two children were born and one died in an accident. On April 5, 1865, President Abraham Lincoln toured the home after it was seized by Union troops. A week later, Lincoln accepted Robert E. Lee’s surrender. Two days after that historic event ended the Civil War, Lincoln was assassinated. This building is now the Museum of the Confederacy.
