Sarah Knox Davis
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Sarah Knox Davis was the daughter of the 12th U.S. president Zachary Taylor and part of the notable Lee family. She met future Confederate president Jefferson Davis when living with her father and fam
Sarah Knox Taylor, age 16
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
Sarah Knox Davis
…September 15, 1835) was the daughter of the 12th U.S. president Zachary Taylor and part of the notable Lee family. She met future Confederate president Jefferson Davis (1808–1889) when living with her father and family at Fort Crawford during the Black Hawk War in 1832. They married in 1835 and she died three months…
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)