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I like the fact that his mother gave him the middle name of Finis, as in finish, as in she's finished cranking out babies. There were 10 children.
Some of these guys from the South are really hard to nail down. This quote from Davis and him being anti-secessionist on top of it is interesting.When He resigned on January 21, 1861 in his farewell address to the Senate he called it "the saddest day of my life".
Welp...I can't say I blame her.I like the fact that his mother gave him the middle name of Finis, as in finish, as in she's finished cranking out babies. There were 10 children.
In the research I saw he was there recovering from his bout of malaria. In the video I discussed how he observed the Spanish fortifications. What else did he do there that influenced him?The time he spent in Cuba had a lot of influence on him going into the war.
According to an old article from Civil War Times Illustrated the Finis business is apocryphal rubbish invented by the Northern press; unfortunately I don't at this distance in time recall the author or exact name of the article but have always remembered it. However, there WAS an actual Confederate soldier from Hood's Texas Brigade with the unwieldy and unlikely name Decimus et Ultimus Barziza! ("Tenth and Last.") According to the article Davis had NO middle name!I like the fact that his mother gave him the middle name of Finis, as in finish, as in she's finished cranking out babies. There were 10 children.
Two of the notable and likely unfortunate long-term friendships he formed around that time were with the ultimate military failures he thought highly of, Albert Sidney Johnston and Braxton Bragg. Johnston's faulty strategy cost the Confederacy Kentucky and most of Tennessee and paved the way for the ascendency of U.S. Grant; Bragg's failings are too legendary and voluminous to detail here.In the research I saw he was there recovering from his bout of malaria. In the video I discussed how he observed the Spanish fortifications. What else did he do there that influenced him?
We can't prove it was and we can't prove it wasn't , so what's a person to do? It does sound like something the Yankee Press would do, though. Thankyou!According to an old article from Civil War Times Illustrated the Finis business is apocryphal rubbish invented by the Northern press; unfortunately I don't at this distance in time recall the author or exact name of the article but have always remembered it. However, there WAS an actual Confederate soldier from Hood's Texas Brigade with the unwieldy and unlikely name Decimus et Ultimus Barziza! ("Tenth and Last.")
Locust Grove is often closed, but open for visitors at various times of the year, because it is so isolated. Check with the Audubon State Commemorative Area/Oakley House near St. Francisville for times of visitor access.Davis served for a time in Indian Territory at Forts Gibson and Washita. He also married Sarah Knox Taylor, daughter of his commanding officer, General and future President Zachary Taylor. Unfortunately, after only a brief marriage she succumbed to illness and is buried in a family cemetery in Locust Grove State Historic Site, St. Francisville, Louisiana:
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I don't remember his name (as its been a while since I read JD'd book) but a Spanish officer befriended him and I believe that when the CW started he came here and became a CS officer under Beauregard.In the research I saw he was there recovering from his bout of malaria. In the video I discussed how he observed the Spanish fortifications. What else did he do there that influenced him?
Col. Ambrosio Gonzales is the only Spanish (Cuban) officer that I recall at the moment who served under Beauregard.I don't remember his name (as its been a while since I read JD'd book) but a Spanish officer befriended him and I believe that when the CW started he came here and became a CS officer under Beauregard.