1630643 The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States, Inauguration of Jefferson Davis, Montgomery, Alabama, February 18, 1861, pub. 1878 (colour litho) by Massalon, James (fl.1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: Left to right: Alexander Hamilton Stephens (1812 - 1883) Vice President; William Lowndes Yancey (1814 - 1863) Leader of the Secession Party; Jefferson F. Davis (1807 - 1889; First President of the Confederate States of America; Thomas Howell Cobb (1815 - 1868) President of the Senate.); The Stapleton Collection.