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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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