A beautiful silver bowl once belonging to Mrs. Jefferson Davis is being auctioned on June 8. Here is the provenance on it: Jefferson Davis: An Exceptional Samuel Kirk & Son Castellated Repousse Coin Silver Bowl Presented to Mrs. Jefferson Davis [...]
There is a great article in the Montgomery Advertiser today, Sunday, May 26th, 2013 about the Evening With Winston Groom fundraiser held on May 2nd by the White House Association to raise money for the First White House of the [...]
In the March 2013 issue of the United Daughters of Confederacy magazine, my attention was drawn to story by Hilda Hill Bradberry on Katherine Mason Rowland, great great great niece of Virginia's George Mason. When war broke out both her brothers [...]
Are you wondering what the connection between Mary Custis Lee, eldest daughter of Robert E. Lee has to do with the First White House of the Confederacy in Montgomery, Alabama? Simple: we have been given a beautiful Secretary/Desk/Bookcase that once [...]
The Montgomery Advertiser reported on May 14 that the Winter Building, at Court Square in downtown Montgomery, would soon become a hotel. This is of course the building from which the telegram was sent which began the War Between the [...]
If you want to get involved financially with the First White House of the Confederacy, we now have a new, easy way for you to do so. Just go to our website www.firstwhitehouse.org and click on "get involved". There you [...]
Here it is the middle of May and now that the bi-annual fundraiser is over we are busy planning the 205th birthday commemoration for Jefferson Davis, only President of the Confederate States of America. He was born June 3rd, 1808 [...]
On April 25th I wrote about Union Colonel Streight's raid into Alabama being a disaster. This was thanks in great part to the daring courage of a young Alabama farm girl. Don't you just love a good story? Especially a true [...]
Thursday evening, May 2nd 2013, the White House Association sponsored their long awaited Evening With Winston Groom, as a fundraiser for the First White House of the Confederacy, with an estimated attendance of 160 plus, enthusiastic supporters enjoying the reception and talk [...]
Visitors to the First White House were kind enough to send us a lovely letter, a beautiful book and a booklet titled Jefferson Davis The Unreconstructed by Dr. H. Rondel Rumburg. It was written to celebrate the 200th Anniversary of [...]