Montgomery County AlArchives News.....Statue to Jefferson Davis dedicated in Montgomery . ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Candace (Teal) Gravelle tealtree@comcast.net March 25, 2007, 7:59 pm "The Cleburne News" . Heflin, Cleburne Co., Alabama NEWSPAPER Issue of Thursday, NOVEMBER 28, 1940 STATUE TO JEFFERSON DAVIS DEDICATED IN MONTGOMERY Montgomery, Ala. Nov. 20 A new statue of Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, today stands on the Capitol lawn overlooking broad Dexter avenue, the avenue up which Davis once rode to be inaugurated head of a new born republic. The statue was dedicated and unveiled Wednesday afternoon by Jefferson Haynes Davis, a great -grandson of President Davis. The unveiling took place during ceremonies started by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, the organization that sponsored the statue and raised $20,000 to pay for its making. The dedicatory speech was made by Dr. Francis P. Gaines, president of Washington and Lee University. He described the erection of the monument as symbolizing the accomplishment through peaceful means, even during current times, of the ideals of justice for the South for which the Confederacy had fought. He said this was a realization of a dream of General Robert E. Lee. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/al/montgomery/newspapers/statueto1416gnw.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb