Abbeville, South Carolina
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Abbeville is a city and county seat of Abbeville County, in the U.S. state of South Carolina. It is located 86 miles west of Columbia and 45 miles south of Greenville. As of the 2020 census, Abbeville
Abbeville Opera House (2003)
The rock at Secession Hill
Historic Burt-Stark House
Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson F. Davis was the only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865, leading the Confederacy during the American Civil War. Before the war, he was a member of the Democratic Party wh
Abbeville, South Carolina
…the state of South Carolina became the first state to secede. At the end of the Civil War, with the Confederacy in shambles, Confederate President Jefferson Davis fled Richmond, Virginia, and headed south, stopping for a night in Abbeville at the home of his friend Armistead Burt. It was on May 2, 1865, in the…
Davis in 1859
1825 West Point class register listing Davis
Slave cabins at Brierfield, etching by Alfred R. Waud for Harper's Weekly (1866)
Daguerreotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845)