I wonder how the daughters of the confederacy would feel if they knew that Jefferson Davis had preceded the Vietnam draft dodgers by heading to Canada. He was incarcerated in 1865 by the union forces and released in 1867. One week after he was released he travelled to Quebec because his family had moved to the province and his kids were going to school in Montreal. The next week he went to a confederate reunion in Toronto due to the fact that Canada was packed with hard core confederates who didn’t want to surrender. Eventually he moved to Biloxi, east of New Orleans. They still hang a confederate flag over his family pew in the Episcopal church in Biloxi and I spoke to Rev. Harold Roberts who was the incumbent at the church about three weeks ago so I can confirm this fact.
Definitely, a different country. You have all these connections down here NG, it’s quite mysterious and interesting! On the exodus to Canada, I am sure the D of C feel it was perfectly justified. His mansion is at Biloxi, too, on US 90. If you drive out to the beaches on the coast road, you go right by it. And there is a lot named after him here, and of course also General Lee.
Just another comment. The Jefferson Davis sign also reminded me of the Loyalist parkway sign in Ontario. The signs are similar in terms of commemorating a losing side in a war except the Loyalist sign is about the American Revolution. You probably haven’t heard about the United Empire Loyalists but you can check it out in Wikipedia. My Ex comes from a UEL family and they still have family reunions where they talk about how the wrong side won and their ancestors got shafted.
Oh yes – I’d heard about these people and forgotten! http://www.uelac.org/
These exiling people are interesting — defeated CSA denizens moved to Brazil so they could continue to live in a slave society!
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I wonder how the daughters of the confederacy would feel if they knew that Jefferson Davis had preceded the Vietnam draft dodgers by heading to Canada. He was incarcerated in 1865 by the union forces and released in 1867. One week after he was released he travelled to Quebec because his family had moved to the province and his kids were going to school in Montreal. The next week he went to a confederate reunion in Toronto due to the fact that Canada was packed with hard core confederates who didn’t want to surrender. Eventually he moved to Biloxi, east of New Orleans. They still hang a confederate flag over his family pew in the Episcopal church in Biloxi and I spoke to Rev. Harold Roberts who was the incumbent at the church about three weeks ago so I can confirm this fact.
That is so strange. It is certainly a different country down there.
Definitely, a different country. You have all these connections down here NG, it’s quite mysterious and interesting! On the exodus to Canada, I am sure the D of C feel it was perfectly justified. His mansion is at Biloxi, too, on US 90. If you drive out to the beaches on the coast road, you go right by it. And there is a lot named after him here, and of course also General Lee.
Just another comment. The Jefferson Davis sign also reminded me of the Loyalist parkway sign in Ontario. The signs are similar in terms of commemorating a losing side in a war except the Loyalist sign is about the American Revolution. You probably haven’t heard about the United Empire Loyalists but you can check it out in Wikipedia. My Ex comes from a UEL family and they still have family reunions where they talk about how the wrong side won and their ancestors got shafted.
Oh yes – I’d heard about these people and forgotten! http://www.uelac.org/
These exiling people are interesting — defeated CSA denizens moved to Brazil so they could continue to live in a slave society!