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19 de jun. de 2024 · Death Funeral procession of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans (1889) In November 1889, Davis embarked on a steamboat in New Orleans in a cold rain, intending to visit his Brierfield plantation. He fell ill during the trip, but refused to send for a doctor. An employee telegrammed Varina, who came to get him.
30 de mai. de 2024 · Jefferson Davis (born June 3, 1808, Christian county, Kentucky, U.S.—died December 6, 1889, New Orleans, Louisiana) was the president of the Confederate States of America throughout its existence during the American Civil War (1861–65).
30 de mai. de 2024 · Davis died in 1889 in New Orleans of a complicated bronchial ailment. At his temporary interment he was accorded the greatest funeral the South had ever known. On May 31, 1893, he was buried permanently in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond. Hudson Strode The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica.
3 de jun. de 2024 · This excellent account of the great President of the Southern Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, should be included in the studies of each Southerner that loves the South’s history during “The Late Unpleasantness.”
7 de jun. de 2024 · In May 1865, Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America, snuck out of his tent wrapped in his wife's shawl—right before Union troops captured him. This event marked the end of the Confederacy and the beginning of Reconstruction in the United States.
12 de jun. de 2024 · Mrs. Hilda Quillermina Valencia, 69, of Hazlehurst passed away April 18 at Jeff Davis Hospital under the care of Coastal Hospice. Mrs. Valencia was born Jan. 27, 1955, in Colima, Mexico.
3 de jun. de 2024 · When Mr. Davis, after the disasters of Gettysburg and Vicksburg, found his appeals for volunteers unavailing, and when he must have been sensible of his loss of the popular confidence, we find him at once taking a new breadth of despotism in his government–a measure, indeed, calculated to produce a certain reanimation of the war ...
