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MAN WHO CAUGHT "JEFF" DAVIS AGAIN TELLS STORY |
 Close up of the News Article MAN WHO CAUGHT "JEFF" DAVIS AGAIN TELLS STORY It was Forty-eight Years Ago Today, and Confederate President Did Not Wear Female Attire.... "Honors rest lightly on the shoulders of Caspar Knobel, who is today recalling the stirring incidents which attended the capture of Jefferson Davis, the fleeing president of the Confederacy, on May 10, just 48 years ago. Knobel is the sole survivor of the historic band of fourteen, picked from the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, who participated in the capture, and he spending the day the same as any other day of his life.... his little room over a butcher at... No. 1347 South Second Street. ..... Memories of the day in which he played such a notable part for a number of years. In this city and each year given voice to his opinion to the controversy which has long waged over whether or not the deposed President tried to make his escape in female attire... Davis was not attired in his wife's dresses when captured. ... With 419 (?) men and 20 officers of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry he said, "We received orders at Macon GA, where we were stationed, to capture Jefferson Davis. After three days and nights...... riding we learned.... was encamped about.... from Abbyville..." |
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