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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. 1STWH_161108_009.JPG: First White House of the Confederacy Designated Executive Residence by the Provisional Confederate Congress February 21, 1861. President Jefferson Davis and his family lived here until the Confederate Capitol moved to Richmond summer 1861. Built by William Sayre 1832-35 at Bibb and Lee Streets. Moved to present location by the First White House Association and dedicated June 3, 1921.
2. 1STWH_161108_011.JPG: Original iron fence given in 1946 by the great-grandchildren of Archibald and Sarah Warren Tyson Sarah Morgan Wilcox Isabelle Morgan Curry William Morgan, Jr. Lewis Render Morgan
3. 1STWH_161108_019.JPG: The yellow tack is where the house had been when Jefferson Davis had lived there. The house was in physical disrepair and was moved after 1919 to the new location (red tack) where it reopened to the public in 1921.
4. 1STWH_161108_039.JPG: Marie Lou Armstrong Cory
5. 1STWH_161108_047.JPG: The White House Association was organized July 1, 1900
6. 1STWH_161108_051.JPG: Jefferson Davis
7. 1STWH_161108_117.JPG: Bedroom slippers used by Jefferson Davis at Beauvoir
8. 1STWH_161108_124.JPG: President Davis' Valise
9. 1STWH_161108_129.JPG: Chair sent by the South to Jefferson Davis and used by him while imprisoned in Fortress Monroe.
10. 1STWH_161108_132.JPG: Davis Family Bible "Liberated" during the War Between the States by a Northern soldier. Returned to the First White House years later by his younger brother, Mr. R.K. Willis of Delaware, Ohio.
11. 1STWH_161108_157.JPG: Our Heroes and Our Flags Folks shown (clockwise) (upper left) Braxton Bragg, PGT Beauregard, Jefferson Davis, Alexander Stephens, (upper right) Stonewall Jackson, Sterling Price, Leonidas Polk, William Hardee, JEB Stuart (bottom right) Joseph Johnston, Kirby Smith, John Pegram, Richard Ewell (bottom left) Wade Hampton, ???, Longstreet, AP Hill, John Bell Hood. Robert E Lee is dead center.
12. 1STWH_161108_215.JPG: Mrs. Margaret David Hayes, oldest daughter of President Jefferson Davis, and her sister Miss Winnie Davis, seated at a tea table, New York City, circa 1895
13. 1STWH_161108_262.JPG: Jefferson Davis' last letter to his wife
14. 1STWH_161108_264.JPG: (right) Fragment of cloth from uniform worn by Stonewall Jackson when he received his mortal wound at Chancellorsville.
15. 1STWH_161108_286.JPG: Gold pen on right was used to sign Alabama Ordinance of Secession as well as the 1919 act which ended up preserving and moving this building.
16. 1STWH_161108_291.JPG: Jefferson Davis swearing in event. "The starting point of the Great War Between the States".
17. 1STWH_161108_300.JPG: Bottom piece: Miniature portrait taken from Jefferson Davis when he was captured in Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10, 1865, by Union soldiers. Purportedly, portrait of Sarah Knox Taylor, Jefferson Davis' first wife. Returned to the First White House of the Confederacy by Mrs. D. Blackwell Brown of Roanoke, Virginia in 1989.
18. 1STWH_161108_302.JPG: Menu used at the Exchange Hotel when Jefferson Davis came to Montgomery to lay the cornerstone for the Confederacy Monument at the Capitol.
19. 1STWH_161108_309.JPG: 1869 book of common prayer used by Mrs. Jefferson Davis until 1876.
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Wikipedia Description: First White House of the Confederacy
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The First White House of the Confederacy was the executive residence of President Jefferson Davis and family while the capital of the Confederate States of America was in Montgomery, Alabama. Completely furnished with original period pieces from the 1850s and 1860s, the 1835 Italianate-style house is open to the public. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1974 and the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage since 2012.

In February 1861, shortly after selecting Davis as president, the Provisional Confederate Congress, meeting in Montgomery, authorized the leasing of an executive mansion. An offer came from Colonel Edmund S. Harrison of nearby Prattville, Alabama, who had recently purchased a newly renovated house in Montgomery that had previously been owned by a series of prominent citizens of the city. He offered to rent the house fully furnished and staffed for $5,000 per year.

The house served as the first White House of the Confederacy from February 1861 until late May 1861, when the Confederate capital moved to Richmond, Virginia. During that time, the White House was the setting for many lavish parties and receptions hosted by Mrs. Davis.
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