A lie. By Waltian standards if I have a book that does no so state then the account must be a lie. But for further credence try this:
'The controversy that was to rage over whether Davis had worn a disguise was further complicated by the testimony of another Federal observer who had encountered the Confederate President during the confused moments of his capture. Captain James H. Parker, who claimed that he recognized Davis at first glance, denied that the captive had sought a cowardly way to escape: "I defy any person to find a single officer or soldier who was present at the capture ... who will say upon honour that he was disguised in women's clothes ... His wife ... behaved like a lady, and he as a gentleman, though manifestly chagrined at being taken into custody." And Parker, as he said, was qualified to judge: "I am a Yankee, full of Yankee prejudices, but I think it wicked to lie about him."'
Burke Davis, The Long Surrender, New York: Random House, 1985, p. 145.
Walt