Beauvoir

Truth be told, there just ain't a heck of a lot to do in pascagoula Mississippi on a Saturday night or any other day of the week....and so us thirsty young lads would pile into a pickup truck and haul ass to norleans ... time permitting.....but if time didn't provide the luxury of a visit to the big easy, well; we set our sights on Gulfport and Biloxi.....on one such sojourn I found myself stumbling around early one morn with some shipmates.... waiting for the bars to open no doubt...and we came across a gated palatial estate.....a monument.....a tourist attraction.... what pray tell could this be ? It was the post civil war residence of Jefferson Davis....the one and only "President" of the Confederate States.....shock at first.... followed by disbelief..... followed by anger......I myself not being a civil war historian did not realize that Jeff Davis was pardoned and returned to society after a short time being held in a prison for a trial that never came...... I was forced to do some research and was equally surprised to learn that Mr Davis attended West Point....was a lt Colonel in the Army during the American Indian and Mexican American wars...was a Senator and served as Secretary of War... before resigning and accepting the Presidency of the Confederate States and.....what he thought was constitutionally protected...the secession from the Union.....not exactly the Dukes of Hazard clown type that is historically representative of the white males in the South.....so if you are keeping score at home....it was okay for the colonies to declare Independence from The King..... BUT not okay for the South to do the same....oh but that's a longer story..... anyway I wasn't pleased back in 1989....but I now understand why he was honored and why his legacy was preserved....at least until now.....my story has a happy ending...no not a massage....us Squids found a barge that was a combination Casino and a bar....we drank and gambled and forgot all about Beauvoir....the home of Jefferson Davis.