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Fugitive Confederate government officials captured in Georgia
On this day in 1865, near Abbeville, Georgia, Jefferson Davis, former Texas governor Francis R. Lubbock, and Confederate postmaster and temporary treasurer John H. Reagan were captured by Union forces. Davis had been forced to flee Richmond with his cabinet on April 2, and the Confederate government had eluded Union patrols in both North and South Carolina. After his capture, Texan John Reagan was imprisoned until December.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- DAVIS, JEFFERSON
- LUBBOCK, FRANCIS RICHARD
- REAGAN, JOHN HENNINGER
- CIVIL WAR
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