1865 Civil War newspaper CONFEDERATE President JEFF DAVIS is CAPTURED in GEORGIA

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1865 CIVIL WAR newspaper with an inside page detailed report announcing that President
Confederate President JEFFERSON DAVIS has been captured at
Irwinville, Georgia -
inv #8G-319
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SEE PHOTO----- COMPLETE, ORIGINAL NEWSPAPER, the
Prairie Farmer
(IL) dated May 20, 1865  with news that JEFFERSON DAVIS has ben captured by Union forces while trying to flee the US after the end of the Civil War.
This contains news of the CAPTURE of CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS. Davis had fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, VA and was captured at IRWINVILLE, Georgia.
After the Confederacy's surrender at Appomatox Courthouse in Virginia and the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in 1865, Jefferson Davis was forced to flee the Confederate capital in Richmond, Virginia.
early May 1865 the Confederate States of America was greatly disorganized, largely because of the frenetic events of the previous month. General Robert E. Lee had surrendered the Confederate armies at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia, and most Americans believed the Civil War (1861-65) was over. The assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C., by John Wilkes Booth and other sympathizers with the Southern cause, cast suspicion over many in the Confederate government. Though still intact, the government was largely ineffective.
Confederate president Jefferson Davis still retained hopes for the future of the Confederacy. Privately, he harbored a desire to reinforce the armies and move the fighting to the western part of the Confederacy. Publicly, he was forced to flee the Confederate capital in Richmond, Virginia, with a cadre of trusted advisors, which in effect became a government in exile. Upon departing Richmond, Davis and his retinue established a temporary center of government at Danville, Virginia. They soon moved farther south, however, because Virginia was heavily saturated with Union troops.
Confederate president Jefferson Davis tried to flee as Union soldiers surrounded his camp in Irwinville on May 10, 1865. He had thrown his wife's raglan, or overcoat, on his shoulders, which led to the persistent rumor that he attempted to flee in women's clothes.
Davis's advisors were John H. Reagan, Judah P. Benjamin, John Breckinridge, and Burton Harrison. A small but elite military escort was also in tow, and they all arrived in Washington, in Wilkes County, on May 3. The next day Davis held a final meeting with his cabinet, and the members dispersed after the president authorized their belated compensation from the remaining Confederate treasury, including gold. Davis proceeded south to Sandersville, where on May 6 he entrusted the remaining Confederate treasury to Captain Micajah Clark, the acting treasurer of the Confederacy, and on May 7 he was reunited with his wife, Varina, and their children. Together they moved on through Abbeville, in Wilcox County, on May 8, keenly aware that Union forces were close behind. The pursuit of Davis resulted largely from the U.S. War Department's false assumption that he was complicit in the assassination of Lincoln. A 0,000 reward was promised for anyone who could bring in the president and his aides.
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