Side by side in Montgomery with Civil Rights History is Civil War History.
This is a statue of Jefferson Davis, first and only President of the Confederate States inaugurated 1861 on the front steps of the Georgia Capitol.
This star marks the place where he was inaugurated. Look for it in the next photo.
This cornerstone is part of the monument to the Confederacy next to the Capitol.
Monument to the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis' "White House", across the street from the Capitol, open to the public and free of charge.
In historian Wm. Cooper's biography of Jefferson Davis in 2000 he writes, "His preoccupation with detail, reluctance to delegate responsibility, lack of popular appeal, feuds with powerful state governors, inability to get along with people who disagreed with him, and neglect of civil matters in favor of military ones all worked against him."
More photos inside the house.
"To me, history ought to be a source of pleasure. It isn't just part of our civic responsibility. To me, it's an enlargement of the experience of being alive, just the way literature or art or music is."
- Historian and author David McCullough
Seeing these photos makes it more plain how very close we were to being a nation divided. That a whole nother white house was built, that someone had voted(?) for this man as president already, and even that the sign says that he was president! If what the historian says about him was true, why would anyone have allowed him in power? Probably propaganda and the lack of access to information.
ReplyDeleteThe capitol building is beautiful, and the star where he stood kind of emotional. To think there was a whole population of people who wanted an entirely separate country--and were willing to fight for it is really something. His "White House" is beautiful inside, like Downton Abbey. :)
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