Commemorating the services to the United States of America of Jefferson Davis - President C. S. A. Graduated West Point 1828; Served on Indian Frontier 1828-1835; United States Congress 1845-1846; U. S. A. Col. Commanding Miss. Troops, Landed Point Isabel, Texas, 1846. Hero of Bueno Vista and Monterey; Declined Post Brigadier General U. S. A. Secretary of War 1853-1857; U. S. Senator (Miss.) 1849, '51, '57, '61 (Resigned); Soldier - Statesman - Martyr; Erected by United Daughters of the Confederacy 1926
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