- Collection:
- Georgia Historical Markers
- Title:
- Jefferson Davis historical marker
- Creator:
- Jackson, Edwin L.
- Date of Original:
- 1996/2014
- Subject:
- Historical markers--Georgia--Washington County
Confederate States of America--Politics and government
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889 - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Washington County, 32.96954, -82.7959
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Location: Ga. 57 just E. of intersection with Ga. 68 E. of Oconee River
Text of marker: "JEFFERSON DAVIS. On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (85 miles N.), where he performed what proved to be his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Shortly thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed enroute to the trans-Mississippi Department, from which vantage point he hoped to negotiate a just peace. His party reached Sandersville (17 miles N.E.) about noon on May 6th, where the last official business of the Confederate States Treasury was transacted. That evening, they camped near Ball's Ferry (2 miles N.W.); but upon learning of a threat to his family, which was on a converging route some hours ahead, Mr. Davis decided to press on. After an all night ride over unfamilair roads, he found them near the home of Mr. E.J. Blackshear, 10 miles north of Dublin, on the road leading south from this point. After a hard journey via Dublin and Abbeville, they camped a mile N. of Irwinville (93 miles S.W.) in the present Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park. At dawn on May 10th, his camp was surrounded by men of the 1st Wisconsin and 4th Michigan cavalry regiments [US] and he became a "state prisoner," his hopes for a new nation, in which each state would exercise without interference its cherished "Constitutional rights," forever dead. 150-8 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1957" - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_ghm_jefferson-davis9
- Digital Object URL:
- http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/do:dlg_ghm_jefferson-davis9
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Digital Library of Georgia
- Rights:
-
