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Jefferson Davis Memorial Arch was erected in 1956 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, with the permission of the US Army, to commemorate the imprisonment of Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Fort Monroe, and the arch was rededicated in 1986. After the Civil War, Jefferson Davis stood as the most vocal proponent of the claim the war had been a constitutional struggle, not a fight over the future of slavery in the United States. His claim was part of the Lost Cause crusade, in which white southerners sought to elevate secession, the Confederacy it created, and the war it waged into a high-minded crusade.
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Hampton, Virginia · United States
