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	Jefferson Davis
		Davis had advocated the construction of a Pacific railway as military necessity, and a means of preserving the Pacific coast to the Union, and he was now put in charge of the organization and equipment of the surveying parties sent out to examine the various routes proposed.
		Davis had issued an address to the people of the south, in which he drew the happiest conclusions as to the success of the Confederacy, from the way in which, in the face of obstacles, it had already organized and disciplined armies.
		Davis was specially accepted in a bill to pension veterans of the Mexican war, the adoption of an amendment to that effect being largely the result of a speech by Zachariah Chartdler.
	www.jeffersondavis.net (5266 words)

	Jefferson Davis Encyclopedia @ HillCountryArtists.com (Hill Country Artists) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Davis was assigned to the 1st Infantry Regiment and was stationed at Fort Crawford, Wisconsin.
		Davis was responsible for the strategy of defending all Southern territory with ostensibly equal effort, which diluted the limited resources of the South and made it vulnerable to coordinated strategic thrusts by the Union into the vital Western Theater.
		Davis was not indicted for treason until a year later (May 1866) due to the constitutional concerns of Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase.
	www.hillcountryartists.com /encyclopedia/Jefferson_Davis (2229 words)

	Jefferson Davis Biography
		Jefferson Davis received his academic education in early boyhood at home, and was then sent to Transylvania university in Kentucky, where he remained until 1824, the sixteenth year of his age.
		Davis accorded with the instruction of the Mississippi legislature, and his public record is entirely consistent with this avowal of his devotion to the whole country and his patriotic desire to preserve it from the evils of fanaticism.
		Jefferson Davis and the people of the Confederacy being inseperable in the reflections of mankind, the South asks only that he and they shall be judged by honorable men who have the capacities of reason and gentility to render a just judgment.
	www.civilwarhome.com /jdavisbio.htm (4490 words)

	Jefferson Davis
		Davis was then elected to the United States Senate where he became a leading spokesman for southern rights.
		Davis was described by a contemporary as "a gentleman," having a "slight, light figure, little exceeding middle height, and holds himself erect and straight." He had high, prominent cheek-bones, thin lips, and deep-set eyes, one of which was nearly blin d from an illness.
		Davis was passisonately committed to the cause of the Confederacy, and his labors on its behalf took a heavy personal toll.
	www.tulane.edu /~latner/Davis.html (620 words)

	Davis, Jefferson on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Davis was appointed (1847) U.S. Senator from Mississippi to fill an unexpired term but resigned in 1851 to run for governor of Mississippi against his senatorial colleague, Henry S. Foote, who was a Union Whig.
		Davis was a strong champion of Southern rights and argued for the expansion of slave territory and economic development of the South to counterbalance the power of the North.
		Davis favored the acquisition of Cuba and opposed concessions to Spain in the Black Warrior and Ostend Manifesto difficulties, and he also promoted a southern route for a transcontinental railroad, therefore favoring the Gadsden Purchase.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/D/DavisJe.asp (764 words)

	Top 20 Encyclopedia
		Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 – December 6, 1889) was an American soldier and politician.
		Davis is most famous for serving as the first and only President of the Confederate States of America in the American Civil War (also known as the War Between the States).
		Davis was not indicted for treason until a year later (May 1866) due to the constitutional concerns of U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Salmon P. Chase.
	encyc.connectonline.com /index.php/Jefferson_Davis (2347 words)

	Jefferson Davis Capture
		As the Civil War drew to a close, Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederate States of America, fled Richmond with his cabinet in early April 1865 and began a trek southward with federal troops in pursuit.
		Readers must decide for themselves whether the sequence of events was entirely coincidental or the efforts were calculated to deceive and were subsequently misconstrued by a wife's protective instincts.
		Varina Davis, captured with her husband, was detained as a regional prisoner in Savannah until she was permitted to join Jefferson at Fort Monroe, where she worked to secure his freedom.
	www.civilwarhistory.com /101899/DavisCapture/jefferson_davis_capture.htm (320 words)

	Jefferson Davis
		The statue of Jefferson Davis holds a flag in what remains of the Presidential Library on the grounds of Beauvoir in Biloxi, Miss., on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005.
		A bust of the head of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, lies on what remains of the granite gateway to his last home, Beauvoir in Biloxi, Miss., Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005.
		Tattered flags rest tangled in the branches of a tree before the Presidential Library on the grounds of Beauvoir, the last home of Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederacy, Thursday, Sept. 1, 2005, in Biloxi, Miss.
	www.csamedia.com /Davis.htm (298 words)

	Davis, Jefferson - Facts from the Encyclopedia - Yahoo! Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-03)
		Davis spent the next 10 years in the comparative quiet of a Mississippi planter's life.
		Davis took little part in the secession movement until Mississippi seceded (Jan., 1861), whereupon he withdrew from the Senate.
		Davis realized that the Confederate war effort needed a strong, centralized rule.
	messenger.yahooligans.com /reference/encyclopedia/entry/DavisJe (671 words)

	Jefferson Davis History Profile Biography and Encylopedia Entry Arkansas Encyclopedia Essay
		Jefferson Davis was born June 3, 1808 in a farm in Christian County, Kentucky, now called Todd County.
		He went on to Jefferson College at Washington, Mississippi in 1818, and to Transylvania University at Lexington, Kentucky in
		Another of Davis' duties during this time was to keep miners from illegally enterering what would eventually become the state of Iowa.
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	Georgia State Parks - Jefferson Davis Memorial Historic Site
		Davis was taken prisoner and held in Virginia for two years until released.
		This program starts with a 21-gun salute to Jefferson Davis and ends with a re-enactment of his capture.
		Visitors will be guided by candle light to stations that represent the changes that happened to Christmas during the 1860s, while a handbell choir plays period Christmas songs.
	www.georgiaparks.org /info/jeffd (392 words)

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		Jefferson Davis on Number 1 & 2 at Their Best
		In which, Yours Truly, Brian F.,Grandad, and Dario Sanchez debate the best whiskey, the end of days, proper behaviour while in the presence of Royalty, and much more that I'm too exhausted to remember, at present.
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	www.jeffersondavis.us /jefferson_davis (1644 words)

	The Papers of Jefferson Davis
		Best known as president of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, Jefferson Davis was also a Mexican War hero, served in the House of Representatives and the Senate, and was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce.
		The Papers of Jefferson Davis, a documentary editing project based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, is publishing a multi-volume edition of his letters and speeches, several of which can be found on this web site.
		The site also provides extensive information on Davis and his family and numerous images.
	jeffersondavis.rice.edu (119 words)

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