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Yes, in Georgia.

He was more-or-less fantasising that he and his cabinet could continue the struggle from somewhere West of the Mississippi.

Hs two-year prison sentence earned him some sympathy, and he was allowed a dignified retirement.

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Jefferson Davis was captured on May 10,1865 while attempting to reach the Trans-Mississippi.

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Confederate president Jefferson Davis was captured with his wife on May 10, 1865 at Irwinville, GA.

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Is Jefferson Davis with the union?

Jefferson Davis was the president for the South. He was not with the Union.


Where was confederate president Jefferson Davis captured after the fall of Richmond?

Jefferson Davis was captured at Irwinville, Georgia on May 10,1865.


When was Jefferson Davis captured?

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How long was the former president of the Confederacy Jefferson Davis incarcerated?

Jefferson Davis was incarcerated two years. He had been captured in north Florida two months after the South surrendered. He was imprisoned as he was the leader of the Confederacy that captured a Union fort in Charleston harbor.


What fort did Jefferson Davis get captured in?

Varina Davis was in a wagon escaping the South. Jefferson Davis was not with his wife he was in a safe location commanding the Confederacy. When he learned that his wife left their home to get away from the approaching Union soldiers. He left his position of safety and went to find her. He found his wife shortly before the Union soldiers. The Union soldiers captured Jefferson Davis and took everything of value they could find. Jefferson Davis spent the next two years in prison at Fort Monroe. When the Union could not find any evidence of complicity in the Lincoln assassination, he was released on bail.


Was Jefferson Davis on the confederate or union?

Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.


Was Jefferson Davis president of the union?

No. Jefferson Davis was the president of the Confederacy. (Abraham Lincoln was the president of the union.)


Did Jefferson Davis support the union or the confederacy?

Jefferson Davis was the President of the Confederacy.


What was Jefferson Davis view of the Union?

he thought it was only okay if your mom did it .


Fun facts about Jefferson Davis?

When he was about to be captured by Union troops, he tried to escape dressed as a woman. This was not a very Confederate way of handling arrest.


Why did Jefferson Davis leave the union?

Because Mississippi the State that he was the senator for seceded from the union along with 6 other states and they formed a confederacy which later Jefferson Davis was the President of.


Who supported the secession of the southern states from the union?

Jefferson Davis