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DISPATCHES
Hurricane Katrina Touches Off a Civil War-Era Battle
By Brennen Jensen
The stately mansion where Jefferson Davis, the only president of the Confederate States of America, made his last home is well-known for its wraparound porch. Deep-set, it sweeps around three sides of the white-columned antebellum home in Biloxi, Miss. Or it did, until Hurricane Katrina unleashed a crushing wall of water that tore the porch...