there was maggie, who was 6, jefferson davis jr., who was 4, and joe, who was 2, and mrs. davis was pregnant when they moved in. she gave birth in december of 1861 upstairs. unfortunately, their first child, samuel, had died in 1854 right before his second birthday, so he obviously never saw this house. these were young, wild kids by all accounts. the wildest was certainly jefferson davis jr., and we have a couple of his things in this room. this is one of them. it's a fully functioning cannon, so it was a real cannon. he also had several confederate army uniforms, and that's one of them over there. so what he would do would be to put one of those uniforms on. he'd take the cannon out in the back. he'd set up targets that he would call yankees, and he would shoot them with the cannon. now, jefferson davis jr. and his brother joseph were in a street gang called the shockoe hill cats. we are standing on shockoe hill. this house is on top of shockoe hill, and this was a wealthy urban residential neighborhood at that time, so these were the rich kids in this gang. now, down the

now, jefferson davis jr. and his brother, joseph, were in a street gang called the shockoe hill cats. we are standing on shockoe hill, this house is on top of shockoe hill, and this was a wealthy urban residential neighborhood. these were the rich kids in the gang. down the hills in a less wealthy urban residential neighborhood called butcher town, hometown of the butcher cats, arch enemies of the hill cats up here. these two gangs would fight each other all the time and one day jefferson davis himself walked down the hill trying to work out a truce between the two gangs. he was tired of his sons coming home bruised and bloodied from the gang wars. so he gathered the butcher cats around, sat them down, gave them a speech, he called them the future rulers of their country and tried to get them to stop fighting and to put aside their differences, and they listened to him politely. one of them stood up and he said, president, we like you. we didn't want to hurt any of your boys but we ain't never going to be fri

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