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the Sun Herald
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SUNDAY, AUG. 11, 1991
Music, photos, film tell Beauvoir story tonight
By KAT BERGERON
COURTESY OF BEAUVOIR
Beauvoir became a home for Confederate veterans after Jefferson Davis’ death. Residents gather around for this photo, circa 1926.
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■ Flag-waving Confederate veterans parade down the streets of Biloxi. Their president, Jefferson Davis, rests on the porch of his estate, Beauvoir. James Brown, the planter who built the beach-front house in the 1850s, flees when the Yankees claim Coastal waters.
History has come alive in “Beauvoir. Memorial to The Lost Cause.”
With stills and video, the historic phases of the Biloxi estate have been spun into a documentary that will air on WLOX-TV 13 at 10:30 tonight, , and in coming years, in hundreds of classrooms, living rooms and at Beauvoir itself.
The 18-month project was the brainchild of Coast historian Charles L. Sullivan, who worked with Winfred Moncrief and other video experts at Mississippi Gulf Coast Community College to produce the 29-minute documentary for the college’s Magnolia Series.
Civil War music, never-before-used photographs and old film footage help tell the story of a house, its tragedy-plagued owner and the old
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Beauvoir changed hands seveial times before Varina and Jefferson Davis purchased it
soldiers who once followed him into war.
“This is our Coast history,” said Dave Vincent, WLOX news director. “When they first showed me their documentary, I was impressed
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