THE FLIGHT OF DAVIS: He was at Charlotte, N.C., on the 25th ult.; He Left in a Hurry that Day, Bound for Texas (5/7/1865)

Lieut. Col. PARKER, of the Fourth New-Hampshire, captured by WHERLER's cavalry, near Magnolia, about three weeks since has just returned, having been paroled at Greensboro on the 16th ult. by BEAUREGARD.

Quartermaster TILTON, of the same regiment, captured about the same time, also returned this morning. He was in Charlotte April 25. JEFF. DAVIS left there on that day, bound for Texas, escorted by a detachment of cavalry under Gen. ECHOLS and BASIL DUKE. They numbered about three thousand, and had with them a train of about twenty wagons. Gen. STONEMAN was within ten miles of Charlotte, his pickets being on the banks of the Catawba River. It is his opinion that STONEMAN could have captured the whole command, if not DAVIS himself, if he had attacked any time previous to the 25th. This statement is reliable in every particular.

DAVIS made a speech in Charlotte a few days before he left, promising to have another army in the field, larger than ever before.

BASIL DUKE's command burned the public buildings ransacked the private stores, and committed various outrages on the property and persons of the citizens. His men are mainly Kentuckians. and Texans, and were formerly under MORGAN.

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The American Civil War, as seen through news reports of the time and later historical accounts

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The Flight of Davis: He was at Charlotte, N.C., on the 25th ult. – 2
Treason at Home: The Trial of Benjamin G. Harris – 2
The Yellow Fever Plot: Judicial Investigation at St. George’s – 2
Guerrillas Near Cincinnati: A Railway Train Attacked by Guerrillas – 2
From Cairo: Armed Rebels to Surrender or be Treated as Outlaws – 2
From New-Orleans: The River Rising – 2
The Ram Webb: Capture of Some of her Officers – 2-3
From Mobile: The R.B. Hamilton Stikes a Torpedo – 3
Surrender of Gen. Dick Taylor and his Army – 3
The Assassination: Interesting from Canada – 3-5
Mr. Lincoln’s Religious Convictions-Some New Facts – 5
A Strange Stoy about Mr. Lincoln – 5
The “Last” Story – 5
A Visit to the Room Where Mr. Lincoln Died – 5
The Autobiographical Sketch – 5
A New Idea Connected with the Assassination – 5
News from Washington – 5-6
Editorial: Gen. Halleck’s Amnesty Order – 6
Editorial: The Old and the New Democracy – 6
Editorial: “Astonishing the World” – 6-7
Our Late President: Letter of President Lincoln – 7
A Catholic Journal on the Assassination – 7
Calhoun’s Grave – 7

If anyone wants to read a good book about Jefferson Davis’s escape from Richmond, they should read “The Long Surrender” by Burke Davis.

I regard it as a classic.

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