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men who had been with us said: "We will, of course, we have got Jeff. Davis."I asked them what reward, and one replied: "Didn't you know

there is one hundred thousand dollars reward for the capture of Davis?" I said no, I did not. He said: "Well, there is." I replied to him: "If that is so, I now know why Pritchard ran around us when he said he was going to stay at the ferry." I heard the reward talked of by other Michigan men, frequently in the next few days.

CLARK W. SEELEY,

Company C, First Wisconsin Cavalry.

Subscribed and sworn to before me,

this 26th day of February, 1896.

E. G. GRIMES, Notary Public, Jackson County, Minnesota.

III.

Verified copy of the pocket diary of W. 0. Hargrave, Sergeant Major of the First Wisconsin Cavalry, relating to the capture of Jefferson Davis, on May 10, 1865.

"On May 6, 1865, lying in Macon, Georgia, part of our regiment, Colonel Harnden in command, was ordered out

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