Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1913-08-21

then lived near the spot and personally knew the facts, and judge Clements kindly answered all my questions and sustained my recollection of the facts. MT. R. w. Clements, my close an din innate friend, showed me the exact spot where the tent stood and gave me the details of the capture For over thirty years Ipassed the spot at least four times a year.
 The tent of MT: Davis was on lot of land numbered 51 in the third iand district of Irwin county, Ga, and in the nine hundred and first military district. The tent stood about seventy five yeards from the original east land line of number 52. Lots of land in Irwin county are in square shape and contain four hundred and ninety .cres each, and the land runs north. south, east, and west The spot is due north of and about one and quarter miles from Irwinville.
 President Davis and party crossed the Okmulgee river at Poor Robin Springs ferry, near abbeville, and trav- eled the road leading from Abbeville to Irwinville. The tent was pitched on the west side of this road and about fifteen or twenty steps from the road as it then ran. The road was afterwards changed and made farther to the east and on the land line be- tween lots of land numbers 51 and 52. and so runs now. The tent was in an open spot west of three larg. pines. There were no thickets, no undergrowth, no small pine saplings and nothing but pine trees and wire grass surrounded the tent. Lightning struck and killed three of the trees. About the time Fitzgerald was being settled some fifteen Yankees went to he place and cut down the stumps of the trees and had wagon to haul them off, and just as they had finish ed cutting down the stumps, MT. R. W. Clements and his son, Judge J. B Clements, appeared upon the scene with double barreled shot guns ana drove the plunderers away. A Ie" items north of where the tent stood branch runs from the east to west across the Abbeville and lrWlnVllle Eroad and on each side of this branch the woods are thick.
 There were two detachments or the federal cavarly pursuing MT. DAVIS. )ne detachment went by BOWens hllll and the other took the Abbeville road' ltbe same road as MT. Davis had tra'- lo1od These two detachments met' lone going south and the other gong north near the branch, and Ill Ihe darkness. taking each other TOT loee' onoooad in a fight on the road north If the branch. In this fight two llieh were killed and one wounded, ana d 5orse was killed on the east slue oi tho road and about one hundred ana fifty wards from where the tent sIoou tTbe two dead men were taken pdch ,o Abheville and buried. Between ubora the horse was killed and where line tent stood bloody rags were louno ,n some stumps to the west slde oi the road. Dr
 Al the time of the capture UT lWhite kept a hotel in lrWlnVllie' anu # has been said that MT. DAVIS 'he evening before his capture went lh'o Irwinvilie and bought supplies anu ,onversed some time with partles at
 bo hotel without disclosing his ldeh Ititv. Mir. Davis had with him soine brandy and the federal soldiers Iooh # and poured some of it out on 'h' ground.
 In 1886 I cut from the branch close to where the tent stood a peautliuA bamboo walking cane and sent It 'o Mir Davis. and he in his own pecullai oondwriting wrote me quite a nice let ter which I have neatly framed anu hanging in my parlor. From tla' letter I make the following quotation: ..The cane you sent to me IS oouol9 valuable by it's association With sao misadventure which has been lhe theme of many scandalous falsehoods and which I cannot remember other- wise than as a crowning misfortune without shame.