Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Jefferson Davis” in alphabetic letter N, entry group 4, entry northrop-lucius-bellinger of Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History:
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Military officer; born in Charleston, S. C., Sept. 8, 1811; graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1829; later practised medicine in Charleston; and was restored to the army when Jefferson Davis was Secretary of War.
During the Civil War he was commissary-general of the Confedrate army, and made Richmond his headquarters till within a short time before the surrender of Lee.
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