Montgomery was indeed Davis's first capital. There's also the old story that Maj. Anderson's daughter and Postmaster General Montgomery Blair's son had a love child, who became the mother of the actor Montgomery Blair. She believed it anyway.
More trivia: the once-famous writer George Plimpton was the descendant of Benjamin Butler, Adalbert Ames, and Oakes Ames, two Civil War generals and a politician from the same era. The two Ameses were not related.
Adalbert Ames died at 98 years old in April 1933, He was the last Regular Army General of the Union Army to die