Sample Sentences forJefferson Davis (auto-selected)
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When we reached the crossing, we glanced toward Jefferson Davis.† (source)
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Confederate President Jefferson Davis was on the run, the subject of his own massive manhunt.† (source)
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It was during this time that the birthday of Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, was added as a holiday in Alabama.† (source)
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He talked on about the thievery of the commissary department which every month increased its demands, the knavish stupidity of Jefferson Davis and the blackguardery of the Irish who were being enticed into the Yankee army by bounty money.† (source)
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Jefferson Davis was elected President of the Confederacy.† (source)
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He marches knowing that a letter has been prepared by Jefferson Davis, a letter which offers peace.† (source)
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At Monterrey, Grant rode into battle alongside future Confederate president Jefferson Davis.† (source)
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At the corner of Jefferson Davis and Canal, she pointed to the First United Methodist Church.† (source)
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In 1861 Jefferson Davis justified secession as an act of self-defense against the Black Republicans, whose purpose to exclude slavery from the territories would make "property in slaves so insecure as to be comparatively worthless ...thereby annihilating in effect property worth thousands of millions of dollars."† (source)
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So my mother walked across the street to Jefferson Davis Grammar School and asked the principal if she would allow me to enter the first grade after Christmas.† (source)
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We have had Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, and now we have James W. Grimes.† (source)
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So was Jefferson Davis.† (source)
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So Transylvania College it was to be—suggested, it developed, by Gilbert's neighbor and friend, Mr. Davis, Mr. Jefferson Davis, who had once been a student there.† (source)
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So both approved it, and to-day its author is certainly the most distinguished Southerner since Jefferson Davis, and the one with the largest personal following.† (source)
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At supper Mama told Big Ma of the Jefferson Davis bus being stuck in the ditch.† (source)
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Following the swearing-in of Andrew Johnson as the seventeenth president, Stanton had issued a reward for Jefferson Davis and other Confederate officials, naming them as assassination conspirators.† (source)
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