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1.25. The Confederacy
Identify the following presidents.
1. His granddaughter married Robert E. Lee who was also his third cousin twice removed.
2. He was the first father-in-law of Jefferson Davis.
3. Jefferson Davis served in his cabinet.
4. He was the nephew of the Confederate chief of secret service in Europe.
5. His widow lived in New York during the Civil War but was a Confederate sympathizer.
6. His brother-in-law was a surgeon in the Confederate army.
7. His son was present when Lee surrendered to Grant.
8. He saw Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens as captives on their way to federal prison in the spring of 1865.
9. (a)’s son was a Confederate general who considered emigrating after defeat in the Civil War. (b) gave the son a personal interview and talked him out of the idea.
10. Name the two United States Presidents buried in the same cemetery as Jefferson Davis.
1.25. The Confederacy
Name the president who was ...
1. His granddaughter married Robert E. Lee who was also his third cousin
twice removed. George
Washington. [LEE 53, BPL 10]
2. He was the first father-in-law of Jefferson Davis. Zachary Taylor. [EPT 51] Sara died 3 months after eloping with Davis against her father's wishes.
3. Jefferson Davis served in his cabinet. Franklin Pierce [TWHT 85]
4. He was the nephew of the Confederate chief of secret service in Europe.
Theodore
Roosevelt
[CWSF 73]. James D. Bulloch was the brother of Roosevelt's mother,
who was born in Georgia.
5. His widow lived in New York during the Civil War but was a Confederate sympathizer. John Tyler [PW 93]
6. His brother-in-law was a surgeon in the Confederate army. Abraham Lincoln. Dr. George Rogers Clark Todd, Mary Todd Lincoln’s full brother, went South in 1861 to serve as surgeon in a Confederate hospital in Camden, South Carolina. [MTL 222-223]
7. His son was present when Lee surrendered to Grant. Abraham Lincoln’s son Robert Todd Lincoln served as an aid to General Grant. [FHTH 66]
8. He saw Jefferson Davis and Alexander Stephens as captives on their
way to federal prison in the
spring of 1865. Woodrow Wilson (age 8) in Augusta, Georgia
[CWSF 74]
9. (a)’s son was a Confederate general who considered emigrating after
defeat in the Civil War. (b)
gave the son a personal interview and talked him out of the idea.
a=Zachary Taylor. The son was
Richard Taylor. b=Andrew Johnson [AJ 221]
10. Name the two United States Presidents buried in the same cemetery
as Jefferson Davis. James
Monroe, John Tyler. They are all buried in Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia. [BPL 49]