Beauvoir (Beautiful View) is the name of the house that was the home of Jefferson Davis for the last 10 years of his life and the place where he penned his memiors. The house was built in 1852 and is beautiful today, even though it has been substantially rebuilt to original specifications because of hurricane Katrina damage.
Jefferson Davis was the ONLY President of the Confederate States during the Civil War and was the ONLY person not to be returned to full citizenship after the war. He died as a man without a country.
Beauvoir is also the location of the tomb of the unknown soldier of the Confederate States of America. There are over 150 Civil War soldiers buried in the cemetery adjacent to the tomb.
There are 51 acres to the estate and the house faces the Gulf with a beautiful view. They are in the process of rebuilding the Presidential Museum of the Confederacy and it should be done in 2012.
There are 51 acres to the estate and the house faces the Gulf with a beautiful view. They are in the process of rebuilding the Presidential Museum of the Confederacy and it should be done in 2012.
