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Thread #135639   Message #3094445
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
13-Feb-11 - 01:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln
Subject: RE: BS: Happy Birthday Abraham Lincoln
On January 21, a celebration of Stonewall Jackson's birthday at his house in Lexington, VA, was well-attended. Hot apple cider and cake was offered. (Out behind the house...). This was Lee-Jackson Day, a state holiday in Virginia.

Jefferson Davis, born on June 3, after the war became president of a life insurance company; a typical American success story.
A high school in Houston and one in Mississippi are named after him, and the large Jefferson Davis Memorial in Richmond commemorates him.