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BOOKS: The Capture of Jefferson Davis

information Colonel Pritchard asked Colonel Harnden to take one hundred and fifty of his best mounted men to assist in the capture. Colonel Harnden replied that he had enough to take Davis and his escort. Shortly after this conversation, the Fourth Michigan Cavalry started for the river, Colonel Harnden and myself going back as far as where our command had taken the trail of Davis, and rejoined the regiment. I was present at the collision, which occurred between the First Wisconsin and the Fourth Michigan Cavalry, and immediately after the capture of Jefferson Davis, in a conversation with the orderly of Colonel Pritchard, he told me that there was a reward of one hundred thousand dollars for the arrest of Jefferson Davis, Clement C. Clay, and I think some others. This was while we were still on the ground where the capture took place, and this was the first time that any of the First Wisconsin knew anything of any reward having been offered. In the same conversation, the orderly told me that after Colonel Harnden and myself had

BOOKS: The Capture Of Jefferson Davis

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