Confederate States presidential election Source (Electoral Vote): CSA President. "Our Campaigns". (August 30, 2012). "Journal of the Congress of the Confederate States of America, 1861-1865" [Volume 5], Journal of the House of Representatives of the First Congress of the Confederate States of America, Second Day—Wednesday, February 19, 1862, page 12 and page 13 Confederate States presidential election The 1861 Confederate States presidential election was the only presidential election held under the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis, who had been elected president and Alexander H. Stephens, who had been elected vice president, under the Provisional Confederate States Constitution, were elected
Congress of the Confederate States among the states in the Confederacy, and on March 6 it authorized raising 100,000 troops for Confederate national forces for a year, with additional levies of state militias for six months. Following President Davis’ assault on Fort Sumter in April, Lincoln responded with a call for a call up of 75,000 troops among loyal states to restore federal property ceded by southern state legislatures to the United States. The Provisional Congress answered by removing its limit on enlistment durations, and following the victory at First Manassas, it authorized a Confederate army of 400,000 for the duration. Davis was authorized an