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Friday, June 5, 2015

Fort Monroe III & Willy Nilly Friday 5 No. 46

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This week's Willy Nilly will be about Jefferson Davis @ Fort Monroe. These photos were all taken inside the Casemate Museum which I totally recommend! I will also include some handy dandy links for you to check out with each set of photos. If you have been following along you will remember that Jefferson Davis was held prisoner here. If not you can backtrack to my post on Monday ;)

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This is his cell...he was shackled after being imprisoned...read The Shackling of Jefferson

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This flag hung in his room... Remembering Fort Monroe's Most Famous Prisoner

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Jefferson Davis Astrology/Horoscope/Bio

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Jefferson Davis At Fort Monroe

That's mine for the week, now it is your turn! Post 5 randoms, link up and visit others! Have a great weekend :)


24 comments:

  1. I definitely need to come back when I am not so tired...I am too weary to follow the links you provided. But it is all interesting.

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  2. Poor Jeff Davis was never charged but he was left in jail there for a long time before his wife convinced politicians to let him out. I suppose he got off easy considering he could have been hanged.

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  3. A hard time for everyone... this has been an interesting tour.

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  4. A very interesting post, I didn't know about the sort of Jefferson Davis...

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  5. Great pieces of information and photos, enjoy your weekend!

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  6. A lot of history in your area. Tom The Backroads Traveller

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  7. Too bad about the shackles. The north's retribution for so many lives lost.

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  8. Wow, a piece of history! Would be visit to...
    Have a nice weekend

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  9. Wow... what an interesting time in our history. Sounds like a great place to tour, Tanya. Thanks for doing Willy Nilly.

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  10. Wow... what an interesting time in our history. Sounds like a great place to tour, Tanya. Thanks for doing Willy Nilly.

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  11. hope you have an 'unfettered' weekend!

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  12. The shackles made me so sad. I went over and read the link, and also the link concerning the flag. Had to smile at the Major calling him a "gentlemanly rascal." Such a sad ending to a period of strife and distension, and with much more to come!

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  13. Very interesting - another view on history.

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  14. I love these pictures, interesting museum!
    Have a wonderful weekend !!

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  15. This is an amazing post - (and really, astrology? I would never have thought of that . . you so rock.) I;m off to write "five" Happy Day!

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  16. Have never experienced a night shackled or confined. Let's keep it that way too. hahahaha

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  17. And one wonders if the retribution would have been anything like this had John Wilkes Booth just decided to throw in the towel and head off to Europe instead of carrying out his plans that particular day. Davis might well have disappeared into history, and Lincoln might well have let him go.

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  18. I love Virginia and all the history that abounds there. Some day hope to live down there and visit everything I only read about now. I am a new participant having found a link to your link party from #2 Mascha. Looking forward to playing again.
    Hugs for now your newest follower, a southern girl living in the north,
    Beth P
    Harrisville, New Hampshire

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  19. This post makes me realize how little we've toured our area. Thanks for sharing.

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  20. Hi Tonya, I'd like to invite you to link some of your wonderful barn photos at
    http://backroadstraveller.blogspot.com/2015/06/barns-from-distance.html
    Tom The Backroads Traveller

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Hi! I'm so happy you've stopped by and always enjoy your comments :)