After our Feb 21 blog which reprinted the article by Grover Hall, one of our White House Association members wrote to me: "I believe we must always study and reexamine our history, even if it is difficult. If we do not, we can easily [...]
When the Alabama arrived in port at Cherbourg, France, she soon found herself boxed in by the Union warship the Kearsarge, with no place left to run. Captain Semmes chose to fight rather than see his worn-out ship rot away at a French [...]
A friend brought us a picture of the CSS Alabama last week which we are having framed and will proudly hang in our Relic Room. You may be interested to know that the ship was built in secrecy in 1862 [...]
I am reprinting this in its entirity as it appeared in the Montgomery Advertiser in 1961. It is longer than our usual blog but I know you will find it of great interest. It was also reprinted in the Montgomery [...]
Saturday was a big success and brought many, many reenactors, history buffs, and others to Montgomery and to the First White House of the Confederacy, where they were warmly welcomed and shown around the building and of course the - [...]
As I wrote yesterday the Inauguration of Jefferson Davis took place in Montgomery 150 years ago yesterday, Feb 18, but today the Sons of the Confederate Veterans have organized appropriate events to mark the occasion.People have come from all over [...]
Today was a very exciting day at the First White House of the Confederacy in downtown Montgomery, Alabama as hordes of visitors toured our House Museum, in which Jefferson Davis and his family resided in the spring of 1861, because [...]
Last evening, February 16, 2011, the long-awaited event commemorating the meeting between Davis and Yancey took place at the Dept of Archives and History building in the Montgomery, Alabama capitol complex which is next door to the First White House of the [...]
Today is a significant one in our commemoration of the Sesquicentennial of the War Between the States, because this was the day (Feb. 16, 1861) that Jefferson Davis arrived in Montgomery after a grueling trip by rail. Because the railroad bridges were out on the [...]
Here is a quote from The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government by Jefferson Davis. I think it is appropriate considering that he was inaugurated on Feb 18. 1861 one hundred and fifty years ago this week, right here [...]