[0.E.O]

Not when he met with Lincoln and offered to pay him for all the material in the Forts as well as the southern share of the national debt.

And when did that happen?

[exit82]

Davis was chosen partly because he was a well-known and experienced moderate who had served in a president's cabinet. In meetings of his own Mississippi legislature, Davis had argued against secession, but when a majority of the delegates opposed him, he gave in.[62] Davis wanted to serve as a general in the Confederate States Army and not as the president, but accepted the role for which he had been chosen.[63] Alexander Stephens was chosen as Vice President. On November 6, 1861, Davis was elected Confederate States President without opposition. He was inaugurated on February 22, 1862. Several forts in Confederate territory remained in Union hands. Davis sent a commission to Washington with an offer to pay for any federal property on Southern soil, as well as the Southern portion of the national debt. Lincoln refused. Informal discussions did take place with Secretary of State William Seward through Supreme Court Justice John A. Campbell, an Alabamian who had not yet resigned; Seward hinted that Fort Sumter would be evacuated, but nothing definite was said.[64]

From wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis

Sources annoted at bottom.

[JCBreckenridge]

Late in February 1862, just after his inaugeration.