New dispute over Confederate memorials hits Miss. Statehouse

Saturday, February 7, 2009

JACKSON, Miss. -- Confederate President Jefferson Davis, branded a traitor in his own country, is memorialized at statehouses across the South. But not in Mississippi, where he lived out his remaining days.

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