<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis" id="mwWQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Jefferson Davis">Jefferson Davis</a> is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America" id="mwWg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="President of the Confederate States of America">President of the Confederate States of America</a>.