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In April of 1862 the Confederate government found itself short of metallic materials. As a result, the government appealed to churches to donate their bells. Officials calculated that one church bell could be used to construct up to three cannons. Churches in Hillsboro, Washington, Edenton, and Charlotte all contributed their church bells for the Confederate cause.
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Born on June 27, 1864, Varina Anne “Winnie†Davis was the sixth and last child of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Tutored by a governess until she was thirteen, Winnie spent four years at a boarding school in Germany, where she learned to speak both German and French fluently. In 1881, her parents brought her back to America to live with them in Beauvoir (now Biloxi), Mississippi. Winnie was publicly christened the Daughter of the Confederacy at a veteran's rally in spring of 1886. Because of disapproval from both her father and the South, she broke her engagement to a Yankee lawyer in 1888. After her father's death, Winnie and her mother moved to New York in order for both of them to write. Winnie published two novels and died on September 18, 1898.
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8817
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Historian Nelle Rives Cheek describes the last Christmas spent in the Confederate White House. Despair filled Richmond on that Christmas day in1864, as cannons fired outside the city and news of General Sherman's capture of Savannah reach President Davis. Described are attempts made by the Davis family at having a normal and happy Christmas. Gifts are given and a meal is prepared with the limited available goods. Following dinner the Davis family walked to church and later attended festivities for orphaned children. The day ended with a “starvation party†accompanied with good spirit and dancing.
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