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to the United States of America of Jefferson Davis - President C.S.A. Graduated West Point, 1828 Served on Indian Frontier 1828-1835 United States Congress 1845-1846 Landed Point Isabel, Texas 1846 Hero of Buena Vista and Monterey Declined post Brigadier-General U.S.A. Secretary of War 1853-1857 U.S. Senator (Miss.) 1845, 1851, 1857, 1861 (Resigned) Soldier-Statesman-Martyr Erected 1926 by United Daughters of the Confederacy |
