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Davis, Edwin Adams was born on May 10, 1904 in Alba, Missouri, United States. Son of Frank Byrd and Willie Belle (Greever) Davis.
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Although Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House in April, 1865, some Confederates refused to abandon their cause. Fallen Guidon, originally published in 1962 by Jack Rittenhouse's Stagecoach Press, describes the adventures of a Confederate brigade that, rather than surrender, decided to transplant its vision of a Southern Empire in the troubled soil of Mexico. This popularly written history, based on archival sources and the reminiscences of Shelby's adjutant, brings vividly to life a little-remembered episode of the Civil War period and of American incursions in Mexico. General Jo Shelby had led the fiercely loyal and intensely chivalrous Missouri Cavalry Division through numerous battles in the Trans-Mississippi theater. At war's end he heard that the U.S. government supported the idea of ex-Confederates helping to oust European emperor Maximilian from Mexico. Deciding that his troops could save their honor and perhaps enrich themselves by coming to Mexico's aid, Shelby invited the men to participate in the adventure. But the former Rebels did not want to fight alongside Mexican guerrillas. Fallen Guidon traces the Iron Brigade's transformation into "imperialists, " the trail of blood they spilled from Piedras Negras to Mexico City, and the final futility of their cause, as Maximilian declined the mercenaries' services.
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Davis, Edwin Adams was born on May 10, 1904 in Alba, Missouri, United States. Son of Frank Byrd and Willie Belle (Greever) Davis.
Bachelor of Science, Kansas State Teachers College, 1925. Master of Arts, University Iowa, 1931. Doctor of Philosophy, Louisiana State University, 1936.
High school teacher, assistant principal, Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, 1922-1923, 25-31. Associate professor, acting head department history Drury College, Springfield, Missouri, 1931-1932. Assistant history Louisiana State University, 1932-1934, instructor, 1934-1936, assistant professor, 1936-1943, associate professor, 1943-1950, professor history, 1950-1973, professor emeritus, since 1973, head department, 1952-1963, special assistant to president university, 1962-1967, founder, head department archives, 1935-1946.
Editorial associate Journal Southern History, 1935-1936. Visiting professor University Texas, summer 1937. State sponsor, editorial consultant publications Louisiana History Records Survey, Works Project Administration, 1937-1943.
Special archival consultant various state departments Louisiana archives, government agencies, 1937-1983. Historian Acadian Bicentennial Celebration Association, 1954-1956. Chief consultant Louisiana Archives Survey, 1954-1956, State Archives and Records Service, 1956-1983.
Historian laureate State of Louisiana, since 1975.
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State chairman committee conservation cultural resources National Resources Planning Board, World World War World War II. Member American Council Learned Societies, American History Association (committee on history source material 1942-1945), Southern History Association (founding member, executive council 1947-1950), Mississippi Valley History Association (executive council teachers section 1952-1955), Louisiana History Association (reorganization president 1958), Society of America Archivists (founding member), Society of America Historians, Society Southwest Archivists (founding member), Louisiana History Society, Mississippi History Society, Phi Kappa Delta, Kappa Delta Pi, Sigma Mu Delta.
Married La Verna Mae Rowe, May 8, 1925. 1 son, Edwin Adams.