The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-11-09
Mr.. Resgan's Account of the Cap
t11re of Mr.. JEFF. Davis.

ture of Mr.. JEFF. Davis.
The correspondent of the New York
lNorld chronicles Mr.-Reagan's statemeEt
thus:
; Ii will be remembered bEaH who have
not forgotten the pafnes Of the per-
sons captured with. Jefferson Davis,
that Mr.. Reagan3Was one of the number
So mal,- apd such conflicting accounts
OF the l,tanner Of the capture, and the
copadct Of Mr.. Davis at the time, have
keen put forth by persons -whoknew very
little, If aaything, of. what they affirmed,
that aceou.it Of the occurrence as given
by not only. an- eye witness, but one of
tho captured persons himsel-Mr. Re-
gan-will not fail to prove interesting to
ali, who desire to see truth perferred to
fiction. On " certain day, the date Of
which, even ii remembered, could -haye
no.impprtant bearing on the real state OF
facts here recited. Mr.. Davis and party
had. for reasons best known to themselves,
separated. each taking different route,
though, as it was naturally agreed upon
beforehand, it was the intention of both
parties to meet at a given place at as. near
a stated period Of time, as circumstances
would allow. From The time of this part
ing-nothing of interest occurred, or that
served 10 hinder their. progress until the
following morning. as we shall see by the
facts of the case stated by Mr. Reagan.
Night coming on, they chose place for
encampment. As they supposed them
/. selves, for the time being, at least, inno
8; danger, from the Federal cavalry, and as
! their horses were. ii. sad want of rest and
fodder. they were just on the point Of uns
strapping their saddles, preparatory to
remaining ehcamped TO. the night, when
they leitfasd rhatthe party OF WHICH the
Presidents firmly WAS aaportion were in
In danger OF being plundered and mur-
dercii, perhaps, By certain gangs of ma
raudrrs, who had just been disbanded
from an Alabama briglde On the re-
.ecip, of this alarming Intelligence, Mr..
Davis. said to those around him: Gen
!. tlemsn, my wife and family are in dan,
ger, aud / must go and give them what
protection can All the other gentle
men Immediately made known their in
tention Of accompanying him. They i'm
mediateIy4 put spurs to their horses, and
& rodeSuff IN search of the other party: 1t
sbeinga dark and storlny night, and rs
: the country was q strange one to Davis
and his suite, and having no guide with
them, great difficulty was experienced in
getting on the right track Of the other
party. However, after hard ride of
cover twenty-two miles. they overlook
them. The following day the two parties
joulneyed on together. and night. coming
on they chose an eligible locality for a
camp, and prepared to make themselves
as comfortable ia circumstances would
permit. Mr. Davis and his family occu.
pied Il tent on one side of II row of wag
ons, while Reagan and Wood, and two or
three others encamped on the other side.
During the joarpeySof the day preceding
the evening of which we are now speak
il,ass certain circumstances which seemed
to them as showing that the Federal
troopers. were not in their vicinity, led
themto the belief thatsthey were running
nc1rislz Of captureif they encamped that
night. Hal they been aware of the real
state OF affairs, they would not have tar
ried in the place they did, and would have
in allhuman probability eluded the pursuit
sof the Union troops. However, they en-
;camped. Just about daybreak Mr.. Reagan
says he was awakened by loud reports of
!. musketry, which seemedsto proceed from
5 behind their position, at no great distance
from their encampment. The firing was
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