Jefferson Davis
Linked to Capture of Jefferson Davis
Linked to Capture of Jefferson Davis
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After the Confederacy's surrender at Appomatox Courthouse in Virginia and the assassination of U.S. president Abraham Lincoln in 1865, Jefferson Davis was forced to flee…
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