Showing posts with label Irwinville GA. Show all posts
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016

Diary of 5th Sergeant Alexander G. Downing: Sunday, May 21, 1865

It is still raining. We remained in our bivouac all day. Some of the troops are moving toward Washington for the grand review. News came that Jefferson Davis had been captured by General Wilson at a small place in Georgia, called Irwinville, in the county of Irwin.1
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1 The capture was effected on May 10th by Lieutenant-Colonel Pritchard, of the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, a detachment of General James H. Wilson's cavalry. — Ed.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 276