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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 21: closing events of the War.--assassination of the President. (search)
the Gulf, and sent out two bodies of horsemen to attempt his capture. One was led by Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard, of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and the other by Lieutenant-Colonel Hardin, of the Frounded, and Davis, while attempting to escape, disguised in woman's clothing, was captured by Pritchard and his men, and with the rest of the fugitive party, was conveyed to General Wilson's Headqua. Stuart, of Davis's staff. After receiving the report of the capture, from Lieuteniant-Colonel Pritchard, General Wilson said in his dispatch: The story of Davis's ignoble attempt at light, is ev and put on his head a woman's head-dress, started out, one holding each arm, and besought Colonel Pritchard's men, in most piteous terms, to let them take their poor old mother out of the way of the do let us pass with out poor old mother, who's so frightened, and fears to be killed. One of Pritchard's men, catching sight of the President's boots below the skirts of the dress, suspected at o