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Article: CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT NO STRANGER TO BADGER STATE.(LOCAL)(ODD WISCONSIN)(Column)
- Article from:
- The Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI)
- Article date:
- February 22, 2006
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Today is not only Washington's birthday but also a big day in the life of the Confederate States of America's president. On Feb. 22, 1862, Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederacy, 30 years after launching his career right here in Wisconsin.
Davis came out to Fort Crawford in 1828, fresh from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. His first assignment was to cut timber on the Red Cedar River in northwestern Wisconsin for repair of the fort at Prairie du Chien. Later that year he moved to Fort Winnebago at Portage, where he was recalled as a "lean, lank, imperious, overbearing first lieutenant." While there, he fell in love with a young Indian ...
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