[Aurelius]

"Funny thing for a cross dresser to say."

You know very well that that allegation about Davis is a canard. It was Lincoln, not Davis, who out of cowardice disguised himself as a woman.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Davis wore a garment sometimes worn by men or women. I was being facetious. His arrogance wound up where the sun doesn't shine.

When did Lincoln wear women's clothing?

Walt

[Non-Sequitur]

In his book "An Honorable Defeat: The Last Days of the Confederate Government" William C. Davis gives an account of Davis's capture. When their camp was found by the 4th Michigan Cavalry, Davis was urged by his wife to try and escape. He made the attempt wearing his wife's raglan cloak and a shawl around his head. When a soldier asked Mrs. Davis who the person walking away was, she answered that it was her mother. Alas, Davis was still wearing his cavalry boots and spurs. "What's your mother doing wearing boots," asked the Union soldier and called for Davis to halt and surrender. So the story about him trying to escape disguised as a woman is quite true, even if it was a rather inept attempt at disguise.