What about "dying in the last ditch"? Why was he fleeing to Mexico? Why did he still want to continue fight in April 1865?
He supported drafting old men and young kids to fight & die in the trenches out Petersburg, yet he tries run off with his wife. He didn't even resist capture. What a blowhard and a coward.
Here's his address to the People of the Confederate States of America:
Danville, Va., April 4, 1865.
"The General in Chief of our Army has found it necessary to make such movements of the troops as to uncover the capital and thus involve the withdrawal of the Government from the city of Richmond."
"Relieved from the necessity of guarding cities and particular points, important but not vital to our defense, with an army free to move from point to point and strike in detail the detachments and garrisons of the enemy, operating on the interior of our own country, where supplies are more accessible, and where the foe will be far removed from his own base and cut off from all succor in case of reverse, nothing is now needed to render our triumph certain but the exhibition of our own unquenchable resolve. Let us but will it, and we are free; and who, in the light of the past, dare doubt your purpose in the future?"
Of course, Jeff was about to run off to Mexico at this point.
"... I announce to you, fellow-countrymen, that it is my purpose to maintain your cause with my whole heart and soul; that I will never consent to abandon to the enemy one foot of the soil of any one of the States of the Confederacy; that Virginia, noble State, whose ancient renown has been eclipsed by her still more glorious recent history, whose bosom has been bared to receive the main shock of this war,...and by the blessing of Providence, shall be held and defended, and no peace ever be made with the infamous invaders of her homes by the sacrifice of any of her rights or territory."
"If by stress of numbers we should ever be compelled to a temporary withdrawal from her limits, or those of any other border State, again and again will we return, until the baffled and exhausted enemy shall abandon in despair his endless and impossible task of making slaves of a people resolved to be free."
What BS, Davis knew the war was over at that time
Let us not, then, despond, my countrymen; but, relying on the never-failing mercies and protecting care of our God, let us meet the foe with fresh defiance, with unconquered and unconquerable hearts.
Jeff'n Davis.
Pretty bold talk, from a man about runaway with his wife and servants
As far as I know, Davis was headed to Texas, not Mexico, but I could be wrong. I think some on the Western front held out hope of continuing the fight as long as Davis remained free. From Confederate Major General J. Bankhead Magruder to his Texas troops on May 10, 1865 [published in The Galveston Daily News, May 12, 1865; bold font is mine]:
Soldiers! Once more I say, let us be united, determined and defiant. Our President is doubtless on his way to the Trans-Mississippi Department. The Flag of the Confederacy will be kept proudly flying. Brave men, from every Confederate State, will rally to its support and swell your ranks.
The enemy cannot send half his force against you in the Trans-Mississippi Department, and whilst you are giving him a warm reception, opposing him at every step, your brethren beyond the Mississippi will again rise in their might and wage a battle, which will force the enemies' troops from this Department, to recover the territory which he occupied but had never conquered.
...the war will be renewed with greater vigor than ever, upon the soil of Virginia, South Carolina and their sister States, made sacred by the blood of a hundred thousand brave men...