Unusual Trivia about the Funeral of Jefferson Davis
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Homewood Public Library 1721 Oxmoor Road, Homewood, Alabama 35209
Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) presents Dr. Paul Beezly, History Professor at Jacksonville State University. Death, as a rule, ends someone's political career. When 3 yrs later his body was moved from New Orleans to Richmond huge crowds followed the hearse. As in 1861 he was, though dead, a rallying figure for Southern Nationalism. The new South elite used this support of the dead hero to bolster their own political, economic and social hold over the South. It seems politics can bring the dead back to life. (even today)