Jeff. Davis's Coachman

We have received a personal visit at our office from William A. Jackson, late coachman to Jefferson Davis.  He is a good-looking, intelligent black man, about thirty years of age, not owned but hired by the great traitor, from whom he was very glad to escape by walking out of Richmond into the shelter of McDowell’s Lines.  He has now come to this city to offer himself as somebody else’s coachmen, but would prefer, in future, to life with a respectable family. – {N. Y. Independent.

– Published in The Burlington Weekly Hawk-Eye, Burlington, Iowa, Saturday, May 31, 1862, p. 2