JEFFERSON DAVIS FINALLY CAPTURED!

davis-taken-mh.jpg“He Puts on His Wife’s Petticoats and Tries to Sneak into the Woods!”


The New York Times
May 15, 1865

The front page of this remarkable issue contains stacked headlines and dispatches on the taking of former Confederate President, Jefferson Davis, and his apparent cowardice fleeing in his wife’s petticoats hoping to elude Union forces! Many papers reported this detail, however the true story appears to be that Davis was wearing a waterproof raincoat and a shawl owing to the rain, but that he did indeed attempt to flee from the pursuing Union soldiers.

The paper also contains an eyewitness account on the killing of John Wilkes Booth. Headlines beginning, “TRIAL OF THE ASSASSINS,” lead into very lengthy and fascinating reports on the trials of the conspirators in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. There are also two columns of correspondence between Generals’ Lee and Halleck.

Four pages, near mint condition. Add this gem to your Civil War collection!

$360

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Posted by mmitchell | Filed Under The Civil War, All Historic Newspapers