[Tax-chick]

The unkempt lice-infested Saddam Hussein yanked from his spider hole last December is not so very different from the Jefferson Davis captured in May 1865 while skulking away in women's clothing, and thereafter depicted by gleeful Northern cartoonists in hoop skirts, petticoats and crinolines.

Isn't the Davis-in-a-dress story a myth? It seems like I read an analysis of that fairly recently.

[GraceCoolidge]

I think at a minimum the Davis in a dress story was exaggerated... I think you are correct that it isn't accurate, though I cannot cite any specific sources on it either.

[stainlessbanner]

Yes - it's a myth. He was escaping on the Danville train and I believe they picked him up with his wife. They Yankees tried to humiliate and ridicule him by concocting this story.