Art Resource - AR9645693

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Photograph of Jefferson Davis, 1808-89, after whom Fort Davis was named in 1854, Secretary of War under President Franklin Pierce and president of the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, exhibited at the Fort Davis National Historic Site, a US army fort established 1854, in a canyon in the Davis Mountains in West Texas, USA. The fort was built to protect emigrants, mail coaches, and freight wagons on the trails through the State from Comanche and Apache Indians. After the Civil War, several African-American regiments were stationed here. By the 1880s, the fort consisted of one 100 buildings, housing over 400 soldiers. It was abandoned in 1891, but many buildings have been restored and the compound now operates as a historical site and museum. Picture by Manuel Cohen

Unique Identifier AR9645693

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 4796px × 5906px

Photo Credit Manuel Cohen / Art Resource, NY

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