>>Kalamata wrote: “I don’t recall James McPherson mentioning Davis being captured in a dress in his book, ‘Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief.’”
>>Joey wrote: “Our Lost Causers love to cackle & crow over Lincoln’s incognito 1861 sneak through Baltimore into Washington, DC, in which it was sometimes alleged Lincoln travelled dressed as a woman.”
I have read about the Lincoln rumour, but never mentioned it. However, I have noticed that the progressives love to cackle & crow about the Davis rumour.
Mr. Kalamata
They weren't "rumors", they were partisan political hyperbole & cartoons, of the type we can easily find today.
On these threads over many years I've seen Lincoln's 1861 sneaking through Baltimore mentioned about as often as Davis's 1865 escape from Richmond.
But I'd never before seen the two mentioned together in one post.
I have never read an account of Lincoln being dressed as a woman during his trip through Baltimore from any historian. I have read accounts of Davis wrapping himself in a woman's shawl and people in his own party identifying him as a woman to the Union troops who arrived at his party's campsite.