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Capture of Jeff Davis +! !
Female Apparrsl Disgraced! u

WAR ppp'r. Washington, May IA.
To Moi. Gen. Dir;
The following details Of the capture OF
JEFF Davis. while attempting to make his
escape in his wife's clothes, has been re-
ceived from Gen. Wilson.
E. M. STANTON, Sec Of War.
MACON, Ga, l | q. m. May IL.
Hon. u. M Stanton:
The following dispatch, announcing the
capture of jeff Davis. has just been hand
ed me by Col. Minty, commanding the I'd
division
HEADQUARTERS 4th Mich. CAV,
berlandville, GA. May ii.
To Capt. 7. W. Scott, A. G. I'd Dt0.'
Sir-I have the honor to report that at
day light. yesterday, at Irwinsville | sur
prised and captured jeff Davis and fami-
ly together with his wife, sister and broth
er, his postmaster general Reagan, his
private secretary, Col. Harrison, Col.
Johnston, A. D. G. on Davis staff, Col.
Lubbock, 1t. Hathaway, and others, and
train of five wagons and three ambu-
lapces, making most perfect success A
most painful accident occurred between
the 4th Michigan and lst Wisconsin, by
which we lost two killed and 1t. Bartle
wounded through the arm in the 4th
Mich. and four men wounded in the | st
Wis. This occurred just at daylight, af-
ter We had captured the camp, by the adj
vance of the LIST Wis, they being mista-
ken for the enemy. returned to this
point, last night, and shall move right on
to Macon without waiting for orders from
you, as directed. feeling that the whole
object of the expedition is accomplished.
1t will take me at least three days to reach
Macon, as we are 70 miles out and our
stock much exhausted. hope to reach
Hamlinsville to night.
have the honor, &C.
... B. d. PRIroHRD,
1t. Col. 4th Mich. Cav.
The LIST Wis. belongs to Lagranges
brigade of McCook's division, and had
been sent due east by Gen. Croxton, via
Dublin. Col Minty had distributed his
command all along the south bank of the
Ocmulgee and Altamaha. This accounts
for the collision between parts of the LIST
and I'd divisions and shows the line of
the command in the pursuit. | have d.
rected increased vigilance on the part OF
command in the hope of catching the as
sassins. Our dispositions are good, and
so far none of the rebel chiefs have been
able to get through. Disadvantages son
was captured the night before, IL miles
south from here. | will send further de-
trils as soon as received
j. II. WILSON, Maj Gen.
MACON, Ga, May 18th,
$50 An.
To h. NJ. Stanton:
1t. Col. Harden, commanding the LIST
Wis, has just arrived from Irwinsville.
AT Conference.-The, he met Col. Pritch-
ard with $50 picked men and horses of
the 4th Mich. Harden followed the trail
directly south while Pritchard having
fresher horses pushed down the Ocmulgee
toward Hopwell and thence by House
creek to lrwinsville, arriving about mid
night on the 9th. jeff had not arrived.
Pritchard learned from a citizen that he
was encamped within two miles of the
town. He surrounded the camp before day,
Harden had camped two miles from Davis
as ne afterward learned. The trail being
too indistinct to follow he pushed on at 8
A. NJ, and had gone but little more than
a mile when his advance was fired upon
by the 4th Mich. A fight ensued, about
fifteen minutes elapsiug before the mis-
take was discovered The firing in this
skirmish was the first warning Davis re-
ceivcd. H-
The captors report that he hastily put on
one of his wife's dresses. and started for
the woods, closely followed by our men
who at first thought him woman, but
seeing his boots while running suspected
his sex at once.
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