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To: cowboyway
Nope. JD was mocked throughout the South. After a few years in internal exile in Biloxi, he produced his memoirs which, like Grant, managed to salvage much of his damaged reputation.

Jeff Davis was a poor choice to lead the confederacy.

103 posted on 03/31/2008 10:23:36 AM PDT by Clemenza (I Live in New Jersey for the Same Reason People Slow Down to Look at Car Crashes)
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To: Clemenza
Jeff Davis was a poor choice to lead the confederacy.

Depends on your point of view. From the Union's standpoint they could hardly have hoped for a better opponent.

106 posted on 03/31/2008 10:43:50 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: Clemenza
Nope. JD was mocked throughout the South. After a few years in internal exile in Biloxi, he produced his memoirs which, like Grant, managed to salvage much of his damaged reputation.

Making up history again, eh.

His was charged unjustly with crimes for which he demanded trial in vain, and after two years of imprisonment which disgraced his enemies was released on bond. A nolle prosequi was entered in his case in 1869, and thus he was never brought to the trial which he earnestly demanded.

After he was released, he traveled to Europe on a couple of occasions and other Southern states. He also wrote a couple of books.

If you don't like him or what he stood for, that's one thing. But making up lies simply reinforces the Southern opinion of yankees.

107 posted on 03/31/2008 10:48:27 AM PDT by cowboyway (Did I say that out loud?)
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