Nevada County picayune., 1885-10-08
Jefferson Davis.

Little Rock Democrat.
 [ One Lieut.. Isgrigg, who claims to have been at Macon when Jef- ferson Davis was captured, has given the public some very roman tic stories in connection with that incident. Among other things he claims to have saved the life of Mir, Davis by striking the arm of a comrade who was in the act of fir ing at the confederate chief with his revolver. He embellishes the ''hoop skirt" story by saying that the "hoop skirt, calico wrapper and an old straw hood, which formed his disguise when captur- ed, " hung from a pole fixed to the seat in the old wagon which con veyed the prisoner to the federal headquarters. Then Is.risg tells how, afterwards in 1872, he met Davis at the Louisiana hotel, where the latter recognized him, and again thanked him for having saved his life, and much more of the same sort. In letter to the New York Herald, Mir. Davis thus disposes of these romances:
 ''Thongh accustomed to see slan- derous publications in regard to myself 1 have read thls with no little surprise, because of the total absence of any foundation or pre- text on which to build the fiction. I avail myself of your usual cour- tesy in asking you to publish this seria.im refutation of ths several statements of the story. i
 'It Is not true, as stated, that l was turned over to the custody of one Lieut.. Isgrigg two and 9 half miles Cor any other distaneea from | Macon. The troops by whom l was captured renamed my guard to Macon, and detachment ot them accompanied me to Fortress Monroe in charge of their own of ficers.
 l 'Equally untrue is if that rode with the said Issrige and my sec rotary (or with any one else) in al old farni wagon My private sec retary, Burton II Harrison, Esq, now member of the bar of New York, was captured with me, and rode on horseback to Macon. mad tor several days occupied al ambulance with my wife and child ren, and rode into Macon iu it.
 "There was no such cowardly at tempt to offer insult to me as wcult have been shown by hanging owe my head the articles of clothing which Isgrigg falsely ayers l ha( worn at the time of my capture Nor did my captors obtain at tn time of my capture the hoop skirt etc.. which lsgrigg describes, m less they were found among tn apparel taken when the trunks 0 my wife and her female servant were pillaged.
 "On our arrival at the kQiel il Macon a small body of troops il front of the entrance were at opel rauks, facing inward. When ] go out of the ambulance to enter tat h otel they presented arms while
 passed through, and l received tn salute as an expression of tn feeling brave men show to a falle, foe.
 "The story of Capt. Thompson of the Fourth Indiana Ca valry, ct tempting 10 shoot me as l entered the Macon hotel is wholly fictitious and l leave it to that regimen itself to repel the imputation tha One of It's officers would have beer guilty of so dastardly an insult Ol g prisoner.
 "Upon that falsehood the nara. tor bangs another, that l met hin at the Louisiana hotel in 1872, rec ognized him and renewed thanks tt him for saving my life, and that had previously written a letter o thanks to him. l have not been Il the Louisiana hotel since the war 1 do not remember ever to have seen or heard of this Lieut.. Isgrig: at any time or place, and it IS no true that, as he alleges, l was eight days in his custody, or that l have ever written to him letter 0 thanks, I remained in Macon but a few hours, and was sent forward to Fortress Monroe the evening U. the day of my arrival there."
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