bryant on Nostr: Tonight will be "the night they drove Old Dixie down"--the anniversary of Confederate ...
Tonight will be "the night they drove Old Dixie down"--the anniversary of Confederate President Jefferson Davis' capture, deep in the woods in south Georgia.
He would spend the next few years being tortured in prison and mocked in the newspapers. While imprisoned, the Pope sent him a letter of support, and someone made him a crown of thorns.
Days before his capture, Davis, who was trying to reach redoubts in the West, stopped at a woman's house in Carolina to ask for a drink of water. The woman was shocked that the President had come to her door! She brought out her youngest, and told Davis that she'd named the baby "Jefferson Davis" in the president's honor. Davis, who had exhausted all his personal resources while on the run, gave his last gold coin to the woman and told her to save it for her son's future. Davis was captured a few days later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-eDtV5O0Q
He would spend the next few years being tortured in prison and mocked in the newspapers. While imprisoned, the Pope sent him a letter of support, and someone made him a crown of thorns.
Days before his capture, Davis, who was trying to reach redoubts in the West, stopped at a woman's house in Carolina to ask for a drink of water. The woman was shocked that the President had come to her door! She brought out her youngest, and told Davis that she'd named the baby "Jefferson Davis" in the president's honor. Davis, who had exhausted all his personal resources while on the run, gave his last gold coin to the woman and told her to save it for her son's future. Davis was captured a few days later. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-eDtV5O0Q