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Jefferson Davis’ Capture Told by General Harnden.DRESS STORE TOTALLY FALSI'. *___-TbeOft- er Arrested the Confederateleader II-.* Endeavored in Vain to Explain 11 • Grand Army Posts *u*Hopes T:.-i History Will Correctly in--port It.CkaTTa:; yyyjk, March 26.—General 'Henry rl;.:_den, the officer of the Union 1.1 m who captured Je tiers va Davis, piesiieusof the Ccnfederacv. Giu Chattanooga with the Wisconsin c;::i-aui-sicners ;c .00ate the position «.: toe troops of that state in tne Chick am aur»National Military park.*‘It is not true, said he, ••mat Pres -cent Davis was m woman’s attire wr.en captured It was a coid morning ah oat daybreak. when I arrested him and na haa a woman s shawl ever his siiou.i-ers. The story about hoopskirts is totally false.”Then General Hamden, who belonged to the Fust Wisconsin cavalry, told how he was given 15 picked horsemen and given orders 10 capture Davis. They rode three nights and three days without rest. The capture was made near Irwinvihe, in Irwin county, Georgia. Just before the capture a body of Michigan cavalry, on a similar expedition, and General Harden’s men collided. A jpght ensued and two or three men on cither side were killed and a number wounded before it was found out they Uwere friends instead of enemies.“Wheu I rerched the Davis camp,” continued General Hamden, “the first man I spoke to was the Texas gentleman, now Senator Regan, who told me that he was the postmaster general of the Confederate states. President Davis was sitting near by on a log, with a shawl, 1 presume his wife’s, over his shoulders, as it was a cool morning.” “How did the story get out that he had on dresses and hoopskirts?” asked the reporter.“When I went to Macon and reported to General Wilson, my superior officer, he had the story telegraphed out as fast as I spoke, and the woman’s shawl became exaggerated into female attire.“lb the excitement he may have misunderstood me, or the newspapers exaggerated it.“I have tried for yean to correct the atory, but have been unable to do so, entirely. It is very hard for truth to overtake a lie.“In Grand Army posts wheu I attempt to explain it, I am sometimes hissed. If the writer of instory gets it corrected for future generations 1 shall fejd better.”^5he following are the members of the Wisconsin commission who are in Chattanooga:Chairman Captain W. W. Watkins, Captain J. H. Woodworth, Captain W. A. Ccllins, Captain J. T. Rice, General H. Hamden and E. M. Kauouse.RECEIVER M’NULTAFiudit Crookedness in Whisky Trust Opera*
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Columbus Daily Times
Columbus, Indiana, US
Wed, Mar 27, 1895
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