The following is an excerpt from a longer history of the Jefferson Davis Soldier Home by Lisa C. Foster and Susannah J. Ural, Ph.D., which was originally published in Mississippi History Now, an online publication of the Mississippi Historical Society. The full article can be read via this link. Constructed from 1848 until 1852, the future Confederate…
In 1953, Nancy Hawkins Sellers entered the Jefferson Davis Soldier Home in Biloxi, Mississippi, known more famously as “Beauvoir.” It was created to care for impoverished Confederate veterans, as well as their wives and widows, who had been approved for military pensions. Oddly enough, Nancy Sellers had no direct memory of the American Civil War.…
