For a moment he thought of fighting his way through the enemy’s cordon or of giving up his life in the effort. He was humiliated and ashamed of his garb as any other man would have been. Davis had gone some distance from the tent and from the centre of the scene when in the gray dawn he was detected and captured. What woman would not have done so, and what husband thus pressed and under the full conviction that capture meant death would have refused a wife’s tearful entreaties? And the ruse came near being successful. Davis aided him and undoubtedly caused him to put on one of her garments and, at the last moment, threw a shawl about his shoulders in the hope that the disguise might enable him to escape the vigilance of his pursuers.* (*Debated*) Aroused by the mistaken firing of two parties of Union forces, the President was apprised of his danger. “Two miles northeast of Irwinsville, Ga., at earlyĭawn on May 10th, Davis and his party were surprised by a troop of United States cavalry under the command of Colonel Benjamin D. Jefferson Davis, President of The Confederate States of America, captured. Heartfelt History Classic Wooden Walking Sticks.
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