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| (Jefferson Davis) Display At Fort Monroe, Virginia |
In 1833 young Jefferson Davis escorted Black Hawk to Fort Monroe where he was imprisoned; years later the defeated president of the Confederacy was himself a prisoner there.
Black Hawk and Lt. Jefferson Davis traveled from Jefferson Barracks...
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| Building On The Grounds Of Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis, Missouri |
...to Fort Monroe via the Ohio River, then to Wheeling (Virginia, now West Virginia) in a steamboat.
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| River Scene |
The party then took a carriage through Maryland (where the carriage overturned) to Washington. President Andrew Jackson ordered Black Hawk to Fort Monroe in Virginia.
In 1865, Jefferson Davis was escorted to Fort Monroe as a prisoner:
An excerpt from Prison Life of Jefferson Davis...by John Joseph Craven:
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