Bertram Hayes-Davis has spent more time than most looking at the Confederate battle flag. It comes with the family. Hayes-Davis, 66, is the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis.

But Davis (1808-1889) most notably is known for his role with the Confederate States of America, of which he was named its first — and only — president. Davis, born in Kentucky, lived much of ...

The great-great grandchildren of Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and Stonewall Jackson have a message for those who adamantly want to preserve the Confederate leaders’ monuments: Let it go.

In late March, the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported that an ornately carved stone chair dedicated to Confederate president Jefferson Davis—and estimated by the group to be worth ...

The room is decorated with a Confederate flag and a portrait of Jefferson Davis. A jury that deliberated in that room convicted a black defendant of aggravated assault.

State leaders call for Confederate flag and symbols to be removed. — -- South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call for the Confederate flag to be removed from the statehouse grounds there in ...

It joins other public statues depicting Southern or Confederate figures, including Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee, that some are arguing represent the country’s racist past and should be removed.

Members of Sons of Confederate Veterans fire their rifles in celebration, Feb. 19, 2011 in Montgomery, Ala., following the re-enacting of the swearing in ceremony of CSA President Jefferson Davis ...

Among those Davis kept enslaved, William A. Jackson, a coachman, escaped Davis’s Confederate White House in 1862; two more workers, Betsey and Jim, left together early in 1864, followed, over ...

A portrait of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis watched over the deliberations. Three state appeals court judges agreed last week that Gilbert, 55, deserves a new trial on counts of aggravated ...