Many of our fellow bloggers have already posted on the anniversary of Jefferson Davis’ 200th birthday, which took place on June 3rd. Most have focused on his service to the United States government prior to secession, as well as the Confederate States government following it. Therefore, I would like to acknowledge his life after the South’s surrender:

Following his capture by Union forces, Confederate President Jefferson Davis was imprisoned in a casemate at Fortress Monroe (Virginia) on May 19, 1865. He was placed in irons for three days. Davis was eventually brought to trial and indicted for treason a year later. The following year, after imprisonment of two years, he was released on bail which was rumored to have been posted by prominent citizens of both northern and southern states, including Horace Greeley, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and Gerrit Smith, who, as a member of the Secret Six, had earlier supported John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry, West Virginia. As a ‘freed’ man, Davis visited Canada, Cuba and Europe. In December of 1868, the court rejected a motion to nullify the indictment, but the prosecution dropped the case in February 1869. In 1869 Davis became president of the Carolina Life Insurance Company in Memphis, Tennessee. Upon Robert E. Lee's death in 1870, he presided over the memorial meeting in Richmond, Virginia. Elected to the U.S. Senate again, Davis was refused the office in 1875, having been barred from Federal office by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. He also turned down the opportunity to become the first president of The Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas, which is now Texas A&M University. In 1876, Davis promoted a society for the stimulation of U.S. trade with South America. He visited England the next year, returning in 1878 to Beauvoir. Over the next three years there, Davis wrote The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government. Having completed that book, he visited Europe again, and traveled to Alabama and Georgia the following year. Davis completed A Short History of the Confederate States of America in October 1889. Two months later, he died of an unestablished cause at the age of eighty-one. His funeral was one of the largest ever staged in the South. Davis is buried at Hollywood Cemetery in the former Confederate States' capital of Richmond. (Jefferson Davis’ online biography w/ excerpts from Wikipedia)