Jefferson Davis’ Postwar Home Reopens

The Biloxi, Mississippi, house where Jefferson Davis spent his final years, survived countless hurricanes over the years, only to be all but totally destroyed by the 24-foot storm surge in August 2005. That storm stripped from the home, its porches, front staircase and sundry other period details. It carried away priceless Civil War artifacts, and [...]

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The Song ‘Dixie’ as sung by Union Loyalists

Away down South
in the land of traitors
Rattlesnakes and alligators
right away, right away
right away, right away.
Where cotton’s king
and men are chattles
Union boys will win the battles
Right away, right away,
right away, right away.
Then we’ll all go down to Dixie,
away, away,
Each Dixie boy must understand
That he must mind his
Uncle Sam
Away, away, And we’ll; all go
down to Dixie
Away, away, [...]

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