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Podcast: Your History Your Story
Episode: S5 Ep06 Who Was Jefferson Davis?
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Have you ever heard of Jefferson Davis? If so, perhaps you learned from a high school history book that he was the President of the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
In this episode of Your History Your Story, we will be speaking with Jefferson Davis’ great, great grandson, Bertram Hayes-Davis, who, along with his wife Carol, own Vicksburg Old Town Tours. The tours showcase historic Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Bertram admits that he, like many others, knew little of his famous ancestor except for his role as the head of the Confederate government. How...