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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. BVCC_130526_028.JPG: "Stranger tread lightly here for this spot is holy ground." Here are buried are over 200 of our Confederate dead. Once the home of Jefferson Davis, President of the southern confederacy, now the Confederate Soldiers Home of Mississippi.
2. BVCC_130526_036.JPG: "Each soldiers name shall shine untarnished on the roll of fame and stand the example of each distant age, and add new lustre to the historic page."
3. BVCC_130526_051.JPG: The unknown soldier of the Confederate States of America
4. BVCC_130526_208.JPG: Father of Jefferson Davis
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Wikipedia Description: Beauvoir (Biloxi, Mississippi)
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Beauvoir plantation is notable as the historic post-war home (1876-1889) of the former Confederate President Jefferson Davis. Its construction was begun in 1848 at Biloxi, Mississippi. It was purchased in 1873 by the planter Samuel Dorsey and his wife Sarah Dorsey. After her husband's death in 1875, the widow Sarah Ellis Dorsey learned of Jefferson Davis' difficulties. She invited him to the plantation and offered him a cottage near the main house, where he could live and work at his memoirs. He ended up living there the rest of his life. The house and plantation have been designated as a National Historic Landmark.

Ill with cancer, in 1878 Sarah Ellis Dorsey remade her will, bequeathing Beauvoir to Jefferson Davis and his surviving daughter, Varina Anne Davis, known as "Winnie". His wife Varina Howell Davis was also living there, and the three Davises lived there until Jefferson Davis' death in 1889. Varina Davis and her daughter moved to New York in 1891.

After the death of Winnie in 1898, Varina Howell Davis inherited the plantation. She sold it in 1902 to the Mississippi Chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, with the stipulation that it be used as a Confederate veterans home and later as a memorial to her husband. Barracks were built and the property was used as a home until 1953.

At that time, the main house was adapted as a house museum. In 1998, a library was completed and opened on site.

The main house and library were badly damaged, and other outbuildings were destroyed, during Hurricane Katrina on August 29, 2005. Beauvoir survived a similar onslaught from Hurricane Camille in 1969. The house was restored and has been re-opened, while work continues on the library.

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Beauvoir was the location of the retirement home of Confederate President Jefferson Davis from 1876 to 1889. The compound consisted of approximately 608 acres (2.46 km2) when Davis lived ...More...
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