for several months, Governor Upham, of Wisconsin, then a Lieutenant in the United States army, being one of the officers to guard him. Davis was finally released on bail, Horace Greely and others going on his bond.

Who was Captain Yeoman?

He was a Captain in an Ohio regiment, who somewhere in the Carolinas fell in with the Davis party, and passing himself off for a Confederate, traveled with them for several days, and it was he who contrived to get the dispatch to General Wilson at Macon, which caused him to send a number of regiments in different directions to try and head Davis off, and which did finally result in his capture.

How was Davis dressed?

He wore a common slouched hat, nice fine boots, no spurs, coat and

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