Today, being the 200th anniversary of Confederate President Jefferson Davis' birth in Kentucky, not too far from where Abraham Lincoln was born eight months later, I take some time to look at his lfe.
Heattended college in Kentucky before going to West Point. After that, he served two times in the army and married the daughter of his commander and later President Zachary Taylor. She died a few months later and Davis remarried into Mississippi's plantation aristocracy.
He served in the US House and Senate and was Secretary of War. He resigned from the Senate when Mississippi left the union even though he opposed secession.
I see that state offices in Alabama are closed today in observance of his birthday.
Again, Happy Birthday Mr. President. --Old Blockade-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
