Jefferson Davis

...of exposed granite that was turned into the largest sculpture in the world. Three Confederate heroes are carved into the north side: Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, and generals Stonewall Jackson and Robert Lee. The mountain...

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...bloodlines' poorer cousins." He recalls the family lore that a great-great-grandmother was rumored to have been a second cousin of Jefferson Davis. (What will the semi-literate nuts on the looney left make of that?) "That was the world in...

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...you on a 90-minute walk in Lincoln's footsteps. Near the square is St. Paul's Episcopal Church, where Confederate President Jefferson Davis in 1865 learned the troubling news that his troops were no longer able to defend the city. During...

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...in the Civil War, Stiles and Rubenstein explained, and they surmised Gross was not rooting for the same team as Dillon. "Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederate States," Stiles said. "It is my guess that this guy who serviced...

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...really worth reading, as the Times' enmity toward Palin is so extreme: on a much smaller scale, it's sort of like reading what Jefferson Davis thought of Abraham Lincoln. But this paragraph is worth noting: The Times has so little...

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...proudest moment. But of course, the most representatives defenders of that classical liberal tradition were southerners such as Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens, who perceived the Republicans as the party of big government, conspiring...

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...when captured by Winfield Scott's army. In Scott's march to Mexico City was Robert E. Lee. The hero of Buena Vista was Col. Jefferson Davis, who had married the daughter of his commanding officer, future President Zachary Taylor. Davis...

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FRANKFORT - Abraham Lincoln's in a wooden box. So is Jefferson Davis and two other statues of prominent figures in Kentucky history. Visitors to the state Capitol won't see much of the building's ornate rotunda. It's closed for repairs...

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...and Fort Polk, named after Leonidas Polk, a bishop who was named a corps commander because of his friendship with President Jefferson Davis, and who is best known for being decapitated by a cannonball fired by an uncannily accurate Yankee...

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...in Lee, Stonewall Jackson, Lincoln, Sherman, and Grant, but John Fremont, Henry Halleck, and Don Carlos Buell are "lesser beings"; Jefferson Davis is a "fusspot"; and George McClellan is "insufficiently ruthless. " Keegan's account is knotted...

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