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The Daily Dispatch: February 13, 1861., [Electronic resource], article 1 (search)
he Provisional capital, #x38;c. A sketch of the prominent man who is to share in North America the honors of the Presidential chair with Abraham Lincoln for the next four years, is at the present moment especially apropos. Hon. Jeff. Davis, President. Few men have led a life more filled with stirring or eventful incidents than Jefferson Davis. A native of Kentucky, born about 1806, he went in early youth with his father to Mississippi, then a Territory, and was appointed by President Monroe in 1822 to be a cadet at West Point. He graduated with the first honors in 1828 as Brevet Second Lieut., and at his own request was placed in active service, being assigned to the command of General (then Colonel,) Zachary Taylor, who was stationed in the West. In the frontier wars of the time young Davis distinguished himself in so marked a manner that when a new regiment of dragoons was formed he at once obtained a commission as first Lieutenant. During this time a romantic attachm