Today's Washington Post includes a fascinating story about a young black child, Jim Limber, semi-adopted by the Davis' towards the end of the Civil War. The Post calls it a "myth".
" In 2008, the Sons of Confederate Veterans offered a $100,000 statue of Jefferson Davis to the American Civil War Center in Richmond. A life-sized Jim Limber is depicted on the statue, holding one hand of a life sized Jefferson Davis who is holding the hand of his son Joseph with the other hand. The statue was completed in fall 2008 and while it was initially accepted by the center, the deal quickly fell through and is now on permanent display at Beauvoir, Davis' Mississippi home." SOURCE HERE."
Read the Post story if you have access, and note the University of Alabama professor it quotes.
(Hilary Green, associate professor of history at the University of Alabama and an expert in the Civil War era.)
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