The House of Jefferson Davis
There is a pretty house located on Camp Street in New Orleans, Louisiana. People who walk by this house often see an old man looking out from the second floor window. He appears to have a gray color to him, with a beard, wild hair, and cheek bones that stand out on his facial structure. This figure looks surprised to be seeing what he is looking at from the window, but he looks happy to see a pretty blue sky over his head. The head and shoulders on this figure are only visible for a second or two before they disappear. The ghost has also been known to walk the halls of the house.
As the ghost is walking, he continually starts to repeat the question: “Where are my boots?” This is the spirit of the one and only president of the Confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis. Davis died in this very house at precisely 1:00 A.M. on the night of December 5th, 1889. It was well-known during his time that Davis would always say that he did not want to die with his boots off his feet. The spirit of Jefferson Davis has not only been in this house in New Orleans, but also at his grave in Richmond, Virginia, Congress in Washington D.C., and at the Confederate Museum in New Orleans.
When the Civil War ended, Davis was put into prison for two years. However, he was charged with crimes that never went under trail in the court of law, despite his begging for a fair trial. When Davis was released, he received a hero’s welcome from all of the Southerners in Virginia and the Carolinas. However, Davis was ashamed, and stayed away from the public as much as possible. Eventually, he would buy the house he would spend the rest of his life in on Camp Street in New Orleans. From this time on, Davis rarely left his home or socialized with anyone.
For the remaining years of his life in the house, Davis would not leave, but merely stand by his window and look out onto the street. The spirit of this man’s soul still lives on, doing what he did during his final days. He had become a man defeated and embarrassed because of his great loss to the Northerners. He is often looked at as one of the most famous Confederates and traitors to the United States of America. It is not surprising that a man of this stature has a restless spirit, especially as he lived his final days in a United States that was run by the North. So take a walk down on Camp Street and maybe you’ll be able to catch a glimpse of the one and only Confederate president, Jefferson Davis.
(Source: Dwyer, Jeff. Ghost Hunter’s Guide to New Orleans. 2007.)
What a bunch of garbage ! If you are going to write about a historical figure such as Jefferson Davis, you might want to try doing your homework and studying the actual historical facts and circumstances of their death. I know. I am currently writing a paper on the man and the events surrounding his death. Jeff Davis did not spend his last remaining years of his life there ! He spent them on the Beauvoir Plantation in Biloxi, MS. His last remaining few days were spent in a friend’s house on Camp Street in the New Orleans French Quarter.
The house where Jefferson Davis died is not even on Camp St. It is on First St.