Now that the city of Augusta has voted to erase all mention of former Confederate President Jefferson Davis from the 5th Street bridge, a local historian is requesting that two historical markers on ...
Milledge Murray wrote to the Augusta clerk of commission on Nov. 18 asking that the two plaques on the South Carolina side that bear Jefferson Davis’ portrait and information about his service in the ...
Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The Frederick Hill Meserve Collection comprises more than five thousand Civil War-era portrait negatives from the ...