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Brierfield - Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis (Paperback) Loot Price: R1,021
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Brierfield - Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis (Paperback): Jr. Everett Edgar

Brierfield - Plantation Home of Jefferson Davis (Paperback)

Jr. Everett Edgar

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This is the story of a house, ""Brierfield,"" and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of ""Brierfield"" from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Jefferson Davis with ""Beauvoir,"" his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the years after 1865, but ""Brierfield"" was his home during the most productive years of his life. We see Davis here as a young planter, a United States Representative and Senator, a Mexican War hero, United States Secretary of War, and President of the Confederate States of America. The tangled web of relationships involving Davis, his second wife, Varina Howell of Natchez, and his older brother and substitute father, Joseph Davis of nearby ""Hurricane Plantation,"" unfolds against the physical setting of ""Brierfield.

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Imprint: University Press Of Mississippi
Country of origin: United States
Release date: August 2009
First published: August 2009
Authors: Jr. Everett Edgar
Dimensions: 216 x 133 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 158
ISBN-13: 978-1-60473-375-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Architecture > Public buildings: civic, commercial, industrial, etc > General
Books > Humanities > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > War & defence operations > Civil war
Books > History > American history > 1800 to 1900
Books > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
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LSN: 1-60473-375-6
Barcode: 9781604733754

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