A Guide to the Images of the Bronze Map on the Lawn of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
39. First Capital of the Confederacy, 1861
Montgomery, Montgomery County
Montgomery served as the first capital of the Confederate States of America. President Jefferson Davis was inaugurated
on the portico of the state capitol on February 18, 1861. Three months later Confederate officials
moved the capital to Richmond, Virginia.
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