MONTGOMERY, Ala., April 29.--The real occasion for bringing Jefferson Davis out of his solitude amid the Mississippi bayous, the laying of a cornerstone to the Confederate dead, occurred to-day.

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Before he was a traitor, Jefferson Davis was a senator from Mississippi. From the moment he walked out of the US Capitol to join the Confederacy in January 1861, his mahogany desk in the Senate ...

Jefferson Davis' rights of citizenship were restored on October 17, 1978. He was the last Confederate whose rights were curtailed and the last to have them posthumously restored.

“Varina,” Charles Frazier’s fourth novel, presents the story of Varina Howell Davis, the 20-years-younger wife of the martyrdom-enchanted President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis.

The Jefferson Davis statue on display at the Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, in Austin, on April 5, 2017. Photograph by Callie Richmond ...

Bertram Hayes-Davis has spent more time than most looking at the Confederate battle flag. It comes with the family. Hayes-Davis, 66, is the great-great-grandson of Jefferson Davis.