Old
Court House
Civil War Museum
Winchester, Virginia
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Research File 25: Curse to Confederate President, Jeff Davis
Inscription chiseled into the plaster:
"TO JEFF DAVIS
MAY HE BE SET AFLOAT ON A
BOAT WITHOUT COMPASS OR RUDDER
THEN THAT ANY CONTENTS BE SWALLOWED
BY A SHARK THE SHARK BY A WHALE
WHALE IN THE DEVILS BELLY AND THE
DEVIL IN HELL THE GATES LOCKED THE KEY LOST
AND FURTHER
MAY HE BE PUT IN THE NORTHWEST
CORNER WITH A SOUTH EAST WIND BLOWING
ASHES IN HIS EYES FOR ALL
ETERNITY"
Location: From SE corner go west 40 feet, up 51 inches (Picture???
Presumed to have been written by one of the 1863 prisoners