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    Jefferson Columbus Davis (March 2, 1828 – November 30, 1879) was a regular officer of the United States Army during the American Civil War, known for the...
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    Jefferson F. Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from...
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    Jefferson Davis Parish (French: Paroisse de Jefferson Davis) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population...
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  • Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), President of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. Jefferson Davis may also refer to: Jefferson C. Davis (1828–1879)...
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    The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, was a transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s...
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    retreat to Louisville to plan a new assault. It was there that General Jefferson C. Davis, still officially on sick leave, reported to Nelson, who was dissatisfied...
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    following is a list of the memorials to Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America. Jefferson Davis is included on a bas-relief sculpture...
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    unidentified chief) were invited to visit Fort Sitka to meet with Jefferson C. Davis. A sentry at the entrance to the fort challenged them, and after they...
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    Confederate States of America, and the longtime second wife of President Jefferson Davis. She moved to the presidential mansion in Richmond, Virginia, in mid-1861...
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  • Fort Davis was a United States Army post established in the Nome Census Area of Alaska in 1900. It was named for General Jefferson C. Davis, the military...
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    The Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum is the library of Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865...
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  • The book did not cite Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour by William C. Davis, a then-recent biography of Jefferson Davis; Brian D. McKnight of Mississippi...
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    over to the Americans. The troops occupied the barracks; General Jefferson C. Davis established his residence in the governor's house, and most of the...
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    The Jefferson Davis Memorial was a memorial for Jefferson Davis (1808–1889), president of the Confederate States of America from 1861 to 1865, installed...
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  • to 1871 Davis County may also refer to: Jeff Davis County, Texas Jeff Davis County, Georgia Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana Jefferson Davis County,...
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    is a list of scholarly resources related to Jefferson Davis. Due to the large amount of biographies of Davis published by 1992, Emory M. Thomas of the University...
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    The Jefferson Davis Monument, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial, was an outdoor sculpture and memorial to Jefferson Davis, installed at Jeff Davis...
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    Jefferson Davis Hospital operated from 1924 to 1989 and was the first centralized municipal hospital to treat indigent patients in Houston, Texas. It...
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  • Modoc War. On May 2, 1873, Colonel Jefferson C. Davis became the new commander of the Department of the Columbia. Davis assumed field command of the army...
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    part of the notable Lee family. She met future Confederate president Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) when living with her father and family at Fort Crawford...
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    of an unusual murder, when General Jefferson C. Davis (not to be confused with Confederate President Jefferson Davis) shot Union General William "Bull"...
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  • Jefferson Davis: The Man and His Hour is a 1991 book by William C. Davis, published by HarperCollins Publishers. It is a biography of Jefferson Davis...
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    Slocum, also with two corps: XIV Corps, commanded by Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, with the divisions of Brig. Gens. William P. Carlin, James D. Morgan...
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    corps after Palmer's resignation during the siege of Atlanta 1864. Jefferson C. Davis took command of the corps and led it during the Battle of Jonesboro...
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    USRC Jefferson Davis was a United States Revenue Cutter Service topsail schooner of the Cushing class built in 1853. She was named for Jefferson Davis, then...
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    Alexander M. McCook, 13,156 present with division commanders Brig. Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, Brig. Gen. Richard W. Johnson, and Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan. XXI...
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  • When Jefferson Davis died on December 6, 1889, his funeral was a major event in the United States, receiving front-page attention throughout the country...
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    Jefferson Davis, created by Henry Augustus Lukeman, is a bronze sculpture of Jefferson Davis – a U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of War, plantation owner...
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  • James B. Davis (general) (born 1935), U.S. Air Force general Jefferson C. Davis (1828–1879), Union Army brevet major general Jefferson Davis (1808–1889)...
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    men under Maj. Gen. Alexander M. McCook (divisions of Brig. Gens. Jefferson C. Davis, Richard W. Johnson, and Philip H. Sheridan) marched south along the...
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