HAROLD LEVI COMMENTS ON JEFFERSON DAVIS IMAGES

Electrotype Bronze Portrait
Jefferson Davis was U.S. Secretary of War from March 7, 1853 to March 4, 1857 in the Franklin Pierce administration. Davis was instrumental in upgrading the condition of the U.S. military during his administration. Ironically, he made great strides in preparing the U.S. military for the coming Civil War. These dates coincide with the proposed manufacture date of the electrotype portrait, which could have been made to honor the Secretary of War at that time.

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: ELECTROTYPE PORTRAIT IDENTIFICATIONS (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n15a07.html)

1903 Confederate Veterans Reunion Davis button.
Varina Anne "Winnie" Davis is the daughter of Jefferson Finis Davis and Varina Banks Howell Davis. Under the name of Varina Anne Jefferson Davis, she published articles in periodicals, three novels and a biographical monograph.

"Jefferson Davis died in 1889. His daughter, Winnie then inherited the property and when she died in 1898, Varina, Jefferson Davis' widow inherited the property. Mrs. Davis sold the property to the Mississippi Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans with two stipulations. The first was that the property be used for a Confederate Veterans Home for the veterans and or their widows at no charge to them and that was done from 1903 until 1957 when the last three widows were transferred to a private nursing home in Greenwood, Mississippi, when it was no longer practical to keep them at the site.

The second stipulation for the sale of the property was that it be used as a memorial to Jefferson Davis and the Confederate Soldier; and that has been done from 1903 until the present time."

This information is from the Beauvoir website under the History tab. beauvoir.org/about/about.htm

To read the earlier E-Sylum article, see: QUERY: AGING A PERSON'S PHOTO TO HELP WITH ATTRIBUTION (www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v15n15a08.html)

Wayne Homren, Editor

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