DAVIS, JEFFERSON. Born in Christian County, Kentucky, June 3, 1808;
graduated at West Point, 1828; Democratic member of Congress from
Mississippi, 1845-46; served in Mexican war, 1846-47; United States
senator, 1847-51; secretary of war, 1853-57; senator, 1857-61; resigned
his seat, January 21, 1861; inaugurated President of the Confederacy,
February 22, 1862; arrested near Irwinsville, Georgia, May 10, 1865;
imprisoned at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, 1865-67; amnestied, 1868; died
at New Orleans, December 6, 1889.
STEPHENS, ALEXANDER HAMILTON. Born near Crawfordville, Georgia, February
11, 1812; graduated at University of Georgia, 1832; member of State
legislature, 1836; member of Congress, 1843-59; Vice-President of the
Confederacy, 1861-65; imprisoned in Fort Warren, Boston harbor,
May-October, 1865; member of Congress, 1873-82; governor of Georgia,
1883; died at Atlanta, Georgia, March 4, 1883.
BLAINE, JAMES GILLESPIE. Born at West Brownsville, Pennsylvania, January
31, 1830; member of Congress from Maine, 1862-76; senator, 1876-81;
secretary of state, 1881 and 1889-92; unsuccessful candidate of
Republican party for President, 1884; died at Washington, January 27,
1893.
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CHAPTER VI
PIONEERS
The settlers in America did not find an unoccupied country of which they
were free to take possession, but a land in which dwelt a savage and
warlike people, who had been named Indians, because the first voyagers
supposed that it was the Indies they had discovered.
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