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The Story of the Capture of Jefferson Davis.

After the defeat of Hood's army at Nashville, Tennessee by General Thomas, on the 15th and 16th of December, 1864, the Union cavalry under General Wilson pursued the retreating rebels until the remnants of their escaped across the Tennessee river into Mississippi. General Wilson encamped his cavalry at Gravelly Springs and Waterloo, along the line of the Tennessee, preparatory raid through Alabama and Georgia which resulted in the rout of the

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