Capture of Jefferson Davis, 1865
This Nashville, Tenn., newspaper breaks the news that Jefferson Davis, the fugitive president of the defeated Confederacy, was captured in Georgia a month after the war concluded.
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'Nashville Union Extra,' May 14, 1865
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