Did the Davises ever come back to Richmond or to the White House?
Jefferson Davis never returned to his former executive mansion, but he did return to Richmond — to the federal court house building where his own executive office had been during the war — in 1867 following his release from imprisonment at Fort Monroe, Virginia. While passing through Richmond in 1873 he visited the grave of his son Joseph in Hollywood Cemetery.Varina Davis visited Richmond a few times in the late 1890s to aid in the restoration of the White House as it was transformed into the Confederate Museum. Jefferson Davis’ last trip to Richmond was posthumous, as he was re-interred in Richmond’s Hollywood Cemetery in 1893. Varina and the Davis children are also buried in Richmond.
