Running the Blockade: Some New News About an Old War.
1. JEFFERSON DAVIS PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY AND MUSEUM-- From the Dec. 6, 2009, WXVT 15 News, Jackson, Mississippi.
It will cost $10.5 million to rebuild a new library and museum to replace the one destroyed by Hurricane Katrina at Biloxi. Groundbreaking was held Sunday on the 120th anniversary of Davis' death from pneumonia while in New Orleans.
2. HEADSTONE FOR GENERAL SEBRING-- From the Nov. 28, 2009, Gainesville (Fl) Sun. The SCV camp in Jacksonville, Florida, dedicated a headstone on the unmarked grave of Confederate General William H. Sebring who was mayor of Jacksonville from 1907 to 1909. He died at age 85 in 1925.
3. ALTON NATIONAL CEMETERY-- From the April 8th St. Louis Today Work is being done on the Alton National cemetery in Alton, Illinois. It was built by the War Department and Works Progress Administration and dedicated on Armistice Day, November 11, 1941.
More than 500 soldiers, some whose service dates back to the Mexican War, are buried there, including over 200 from the Civil War.
Now, You Know. --Old B-R
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