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Subject: JEFFERSON DAVIS'S PLANTATION HOME
Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2003 10:03:36 EDT

BRIERFIELD, PLANTATION HOME OF JEFFERSON DAVIS. 24 pages of the genealogy of
the Davis Family. Author: Frank E. Everett, Jr., University and College
Press of Mississippi. Hattiesburg, Miss. 1971. Photographs, map of Davis
Bend, 1818-1861 inside covers and flyleafs. Hardback with dustjacket, photos
through the years, floods of 1920-1922, only known photo showing the back of
the house, 1863 or 1865 "The House That Jeff Built" when occupied by Union
troops, drawings of the cistern house, commissary, bell stand & Pigeonnier,
photos of gin and sheds, Negro quarters, Photo of Hurricane garden Cottage,
about 1865, called the library, large group of negroes standing before the
house were probably slaves of Joseph Davis. Floor plan of Brierfield. 158
pages, index, Vg++. $35 postpaid.

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