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Jeff's last shift: Capture of Jeff. Davis, May 10th 1865, at Twinsville, Ga.

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Abstract:
Lithograph by Bufford. 'One of the less outlandish variations on the popular theme of Jefferson Davis's capture by Union soldiers. In a wooded setting Davis, wearing a bonnet and dress and wielding a Bowie knife, tries unsuccessfully to flee from three armed Union soldiers. One soldier grabs Davis's arm, while the others point their weapons at him. A woman, possibly Davis's wife, raises her hands in alarm. The quotation at bottom, attributed to Mrs. Davis, reads: "The men had better not provoke the President as he might hurt some of 'em."' -- Library of Congress
Notes:
Oblong medium folio; matted; margins intact; soiled, yellowed, torn.
Worcester, Mass., American Antiquarian Society, presented, 1945, by Clarence Brigham.

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No Copyright - United States
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Collection is open for research.

Citation

"Jeff's last shift: Capture of Jeff. Davis, May 10th 1865, at Twinsville, Ga. " (1865). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection, Digital Transgender Archive. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:233914/

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