The Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America

This wall was once part of the Treasury Building of the Confederate States of America, which housed the offices of the President, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Treasurer of the Confederate government. Here, too, President Jefferson Davis, who had been indicted on May 8, 1866, on a charge of treason against the United States, appeared either in person or by counsel before the Circuit Court of the United States demanding trial, first on June 5, 1866, and in all seven times; each time, trial was postponed at the request of the government, and the case was ended forever without trial by formal dismissal on February 15, 1869.

Richmond, Virginia · United States