Jefferson Davis Marker
by Reid Callaway
Title
Jefferson Davis Marker
Artist
Reid Callaway
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Photograph - Photography
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I found this attached to one of the bridges in Augusta, GA that goes over the Savannah River into North Augusta, S.C. The Savannah River is part the boundary line between Georgia and South Carolina.
Jefferson Finis Davis (June 3, 1808 � December 6, 1889) was a United States soldier and statesman, and was the President of the Confederate States of America during the entire Civil War which was fought from 1861 to 1865. He took personal charge of the Confederate war plans but was unable to find a strategy to defeat the larger, more powerful and better organized Union.
Davis was born in Kentucky and grew up on plantations in Mississippi and Louisiana. He graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and fought in the Mexican�American War as the colonel of a volunteer regiment. He served as the United States Secretary of War under Democratic President Franklin Pierce, and as a Democratic U.S. Senator from Mississippi.
After Davis was captured in 1865, he was accused of treason but was not tried and was released after two years. While not disgraced, Davis had been displaced in white Southern affection after the war by his leading general, Robert E. Lee. Over time, admiration for his pride and ideals made him a Civil War hero to many Southerners, and his legacy became part of the foundation of the postwar New South.
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January 15th, 2014
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