Fun with Maps ISSUE 2025-185

By Steve Kovacs (Introduction by Chuck Gibson)

LOVELAND, OH (November 6, 2025) –In today’s edition of Fun with Maps, we visit a time when America-The United States- truly was divided.     

Two Presidents

Yes Virginia, there was a time when there were two US Presidents serving concurrently.

Jefferson Davis was elected to be President of the Confederate States of America on November 6, 1861.  This was a relatively short presidency given the Union victory a few years later and readmission of the breakaway states thereafter.

Both Davis and the US President Lincoln hail from Kentucky (not Virginia), which was a border state.  It wasn’t uncommon for brothers to serve on opposite side of the Civil War.

Davis was a Democrat and Lincoln a Republican and Davis was one year older.  Parties do flip-flop.

This map of Kentucky by Bradford is from 1838.

Steve Kovacs and his wife Theresa reside in Loveland, Ohio where they raised their two children. He is a passionate collector of antique maps.

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