<Table> <Tr> <Td> Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson James Longstreet Joseph E. Johnston James Waddell </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> Jefferson Davis Robert E. Lee T.J. "Stonewall" Jackson James Longstreet Joseph E. Johnston James Waddell </Td> </Tr> <P> Jefferson Davis was named provisional president on February 9, 1861, and assumed similar commander - in - chief responsibilities as would Lincoln; on November 6, 1861 Davis was elected President of the Confederate States of America under the Confederate Constitution . Alexander H. Stephens was appointed as Vice President of the Confederate States of America on February 18, 1861, and later assumed identical vice presidential responsibilities as Hannibal Hamlin did . Several men served the Confederacy as Secretary of War, including Leroy Pope Walker, Judah P. Benjamin, George W. Randolph, James Seddon, and John C. Breckinridge . Stephen Mallory was Confederate Secretary of the Navy throughout the conflict . </P> <P> In the wake of secession, many regular officers felt they could not betray loyalty to their home state, as a result some 313 of those officers resigned their commission and in many cases took up arms for the Confederate Army . Himself a graduate of West Point and a former regular officer, Confederate President Jefferson Davis highly prized these valuable recruits to the cause and saw that former regular officers were given positions of authority and responsibility . </P>

Who was the famous leader of the confederate military