JEFFERSON DAVIS





JEFFERSON C. DAVIS
BORN JUNE 3,1808, FAIRWIEW, KENTUCKY
DIED DECEMBER 6, 1889, NEW ORLEANS, LOUSIANNA
PRESIDENT OF CONFEDERATE STATES OF AMERICAN
INAUGURAED FEBRUARY 22, 1862
IN RICHMOND, VIRGINIA






JEFFERSON DAVIS

State Capital Grounds

Montgomery, Alabama



Soldier Scholar Statesman

A graduate of West Point Military Academy, he served the United States as Colonel of Mississippi Volunteers, Mexican War; Member of House of Representatives, Senator, and as Secretary of War.

Inaugurated President of the Provisional Government Confederate States of American, February 18, 1861.



THE JEFFERSON DAVIS HIGHWAY

ZERO MILE MARKER

FAIRVIEW, KENTUCKY



The largest Confederate monument is the Jefferson Davis Highway, an official designation of the Federal government. Yet it is also the least known monument.

The Jefferson Davis Highway begins in Fairview, Kentucky, birthplace of Jefferson Davis, and runs south to Beauvoir, Mississippi. This is where Jefferson Davis spent his declining years.

The highway was proposed in 1913 by Mrs. A. B. White of Tennessee at the New Orleans UDC Convention; was endorsed in 1918 by the SCV at Tulsa, Oklahoma; in 1920 maps were printed showing complete route and markers to be used.





Jefferson Davis Monument

Fairview, Kentucky



Located on Highway 68 between the towns of Hopkinsville and Russellville, Kentucky. It is an amazing site while driving along the quite two lane road in farming country, to see arising before you what appears to be the Washington Monument. This is the monument which marks the birthplace of Jefferson Davis, the only President of The Confederate States of America.













MONTGOMERY

ALABAMA

First White House of the Confederacy

Designated Executive Residence by the Provisional Confederate Congress February 21, 1861.
President Jefferson Davis and his family lived here until the Confederate Capital moved to Richmond summer 1861.
Built by William Sayre 1832-35 at Bibb and Lee Streets.
Moved to present location by the First White House Association and dedicated June 3, 1921.

Photos and text by Faye L. Dyess









WASHINGTON

WILKES COUNTY, GEORGIA



Last Official Meeting


This commemorative boulder displays crossed battle flags and the great Seal of the Confederacy. It reads:

“On this site stood the old Georgia State Bank building in which President Jefferson Davis held the last official meeting of the Confederacy May 4, 1865.”

Present
President Jefferson Davis
Adj. Gen. Samuel Cooper, Post Master John M. Reagan
Nav. Purch. Agt. C. E. Thompson, Sec. Of Navy Stephen R. Mallory
Mil. Adv. Gen. Braxton Bragg, Sec. Of War John C. Breckenridge
Com. Gen. I. M. St. John, Q.M. Gen. A. R. Lawton
Pro. Sec. Burton N Harrison , Aide de Camp Col. J. T. Wood
Aide de Camp Col. Lubbock , Ex Gov. Tenn. Aide de Camp Col. Wm. P. Johnston
At this meeting the Confederate Government was dissolved. The last official papers were signed, the residue of coin and bullion were brought from Richmond was disposed of by order Of Pres. Davis and both civ. And military officials separated to make their escape. Erected by Last Cabinet, Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy Washington, Ga. 1938.

Photo and text by Frankie Hodges

Copied from her "Georgia Confederate Monuments" web site
http://geocities.datacellar.net/heartland/pines/3093




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