[rustbucket]

Your vitriol certainly comes through in your posts. Are you sure you aren't a descendant of Sherman?

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...

[rcocean]

You're right, I am full vitriol toward Davis and his fanatical counterparts in the North.

They foisted an unnecessary war upon this country that killed 500,000 men and gave the centralizers the chance they needed to change our way of government. The only positive was the end of slavery. Which would have occurred anyway.

The Southern love of Davis has always amused me, since he led them to disaster, prolonged the war unnecessarily, refused compromise, and would have skipped off to Mexico and let them to rot. But still they love him. Southerners hate Sherman; but Sherman was a friend of the South and gave Southerners good advice Before, During, and After the War. Advice the South should have followed.