Bratton House Site / Jefferson Davis's Flight

Bratton House Site

Robert Clendinen, Yorkville lawyer and South Carolina Senator from York Disrict (1816-30), purchased this land in 1813. The house which he built here before his death in 1830, was acquired in 1847 by Dr. James Rufus Bratton, a ...

Jefferson Davis

The President of the Confederacy held two meetings of his cabinet, April 12-13, 1865, at the home of J. T. Wood, which was a few yards N.

Marker is at the intersection of South Elm Street and West McGee Street, on ...

Jefferson Davis

On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (178 miles NE), where he performed his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Soon thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed enroute to the ...

Jefferson Davis

(front):

Jefferson Davis

President

of the

Confederate States

of America

1861-1865

(reverse):

On this spot

May 10, 1865

President Jefferson Davis

was made a

prisoner of war

by Federal troops

Erected by the

State of Georgia

Eugene Talmadge, governor

in the year 1935

Sponsored by Mary V. Henderson

Chapter and the Georgia Division

of the United Daughters of the

Confederacy

...

Burt-Stark House / Jefferson Davis’s Flight

Burt-Stark House When Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, left Richmond after its fall in April 1865, he traveled south, trying to reach and rally the remnants of his army. On May 2, he spent the night at the home ...

Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park

On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (178 miles NE of the Park), where he performed his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Shortly thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed ...

Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park

On the night of May 9, 1865, Jefferson Davis, with his family and a small escort, enroute south to avoid a screen of Union cavalry attempting to intercept him, reached the site of the present Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park ...

Dickison and His Men / Jefferson Davis' Baggage

(Front side)

Dickison and His Men

John Jackson Dickison (1816-1902), Florida's famous Civil War guerrilla leader, bivouacked at Camp Baker, south of here, during the closing weeks of the conflict. Dickison and his men became legendary figures. As Company H, Second Florida ...

Jefferson Davis

Late on May 8, the night before his arrival at this site, Mr. Davis and his party had camped in Abbeville (26 miles NE), unaware that pursuit was close behind. Their pursuers, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry (US), Lt. Col. Henry ...

Confinement of Jefferson Davis

In this casemate Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, was confined, May 22-October 2, 1865. As his health suffered in the casemate, he was removed to Carroll Hall in the fortress, where he remained from October, 1865, until May, ...