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Diary claim links Davis capture to disguise in dress
A Michigan diary recounts Jefferson Davis capture near Irwinville Georgia May 10 1865 and claims Davis wore his wife’s cloak and shawl as a disguise. Lt Col Benjamin Pritchard’s notes and related papers in archives fuel debate among Civil War buffs over whether the outfit aided his escape and how the disguise was identified.
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Richard Whalen
New York
Michigan
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Confederate States of America
Irwinville
North
Benjamin Pritchard
Irwinsville
Sic
J A. m
Jeff
War Department
L Miles
Washington
Secretary of and
Clyde
John Fox
Fricks
Pritchard
Allegan
Ted
Mich
Dudley H. Pritch- Davis
Wasmugwu Wan Yeas Agu
Beauvoir
Miss
Edwin’ Stanton
Sec