“Never teach your children to admit that their fathers’ were wrong in their efforts to maintain the sovereignty, freedom and independence which was their birthright”—-Jefferson Davis.
June 3, 2014, is the 206th birthday of Jefferson Davis who was born in Christian County, Kentucky, on June 3, 1808.
Memorials to Jefferson Davis include Georgia’s Stone Mountain memorial carving of Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson, the Davis Monument on Monument Avenue in Richmond, Virginia, the Jefferson Davis Monument State Historic Site a Kentucky State Park commemorating the birthplace of Jefferson Davis President of the Confederate States of America, and….
In 1931, a bronze statue of Jefferson Davis, sculptured by Virginia’s Augustus Lukeman, was given to the National Statuary Hall in Washington, D.C. by the State of Virginia.
Davis served the United States as a soldier, statesmen and Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce. He was also the first and only President of the Confederate States of America.
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What a sweet little face. I wonder what did happen to young Jim. Maybe he met up with Huck Finn...
ReplyDeleteYes, such a shame and as far as we know, he may have been returned to a brutal life such as he had been saved from.
Deleteat the hands of unsympathetic Yankees no less.
ReplyDeleteI had a friend a long time ago from Ghana (did I ever tell you about him?) who visited me when I lived in Daytona - he was in the diplomatic service, and just before he went back to Ghana he decided to travel around the southern states in the early 1970s to compare his experience to DC, New York and some other northern states. He wrote about it all in a book and his conclusion was he would much rather live in the South - the racism in the North was much more insidious and hidden from view. After the book was published, he disappeared.
Seems like that story rings a bell, but not coming from you. So, you never heard from him again. Too bad.
DeleteHe was quite sure that when the book was published he would become persona non gratis. Very nice man - he cooked a big fish for us Ghanaian style, and I taught him how to drive my car in an old parking lot.
ReplyDeletehttp://books.google.com/books/about/Inside_America.html?id=jUh2AAAAMAAJ
he cooked a big fish for us Ghanaian style
DeleteStuffed with onions and more?
onions and fresh tomatoes as I recall - yummo - another point for moving South - no fish markets anywhere around.
ReplyDeleteWe got them here, honey, You'd love Ocracoke, I'm sure.
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