So he opened it, and leaned over to have a look at the odometer to check the mileage. The crop meter was attached to the dashboard of an automobile and connected by cable to the odometer. An odometer is an apparatus for measuring distances travelled by whatsoever vehicle.
The President of the Confederate States of America was the head of state and head of government of the Confederate States of America, which was formed from the states which declared their secession from the United States, thus precipitating the American Civil War. The only person to hold the office was Jefferson Davis.
The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter in 1861. Jefferson Davis Elected President of the Confederate States of America. November 6, 1861. As a U.S. senator from Mississippi, Davis had tried to keep the Union together. When Mississippi seceded from the Union, however, Davis became a Confederate man. After his inauguration as provisional, or temporary, president in February 1861, Davis sent a peace commission to Washington.