page_title: Sam Davis
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Sam Davis / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: Sam Davis House This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 69000181
context_page_description: Sam Davis was a Confederate soldier executed by Union forces in Pulaski, Tennessee during the American Civil War. He is popularly known as the Boy Hero of the Confederacy although he was 21 when he died and became a celebrated instance of Confederate memorialisation in the late 1890s and early 1900s eulogised by Middle Tennesseans for his valor and sacrifice.
context_section_description: Since the late 1890s, Davis has towered above any other Tennessean in the pantheon of Confederate Civil War heroes.   Today, representations of the life and death of Sam Davis mark the historical and geographical landscapes of the Middle Tennessee heartland.  Monuments commemorating him stand at the scene of his execution and on the court square in Pulaski; at his childhood home outside Smyrna, Tennessee; and in the form of a life-size statue positioned prominently on the southeast corner of the state capitol grounds in Nashville.  An exhibition case of Sam Davis artifacts—including the overcoat worn at the time of his arrest and the boot in which papers were concealed—is on permanent display at the Tennessee State Museum.   Over the years, archivists at the Tennessee State Library and Archives have procured and catalogued scores of documents:  firsthand recollections, poems, commemorative speeches, at least four published biographies, and the papers of the Sam Davis Memorial Association.   Each year, thousands of visitors including many schoolchildren visit the Sam Davis House outside Smyrna, which for over eighty years has been operated as a private nonprofit by the Sam Davis Memorial Association. The Sons of Confederate Veterans posthumously awarded Davis their Confederate Medal of Honor, created in 1977.
caption: Sam Davis House in Smyrna, Tennessee
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