Brierfield Plantation
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Brierfield Plantation was a large forced-labor cotton farm built in 1847 in Davis Bend, Mississippi, south of Vicksburg, and the home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1880s engraving of the main house.
Jefferson Davis
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Jefferson F. Davis was an American politician who served as the first and only president of the Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. He represented Mississippi in the United States Senate and the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party before the American Civil War. He was the United States Secretary of War from 1853 to 1857.
Daguerrotype wedding photograph of Jefferson Davis and Varina Howell (1845)
Watercolor of The Defeat of the Mexican Lancers by the Mississippi Rifles by Samuel Chamberlain (c. 1860)
Daguerrotype of Representative Davis of the 29th U.S. Congress (c. 1846)