MAY 16TH, 1865: President Davis, his family and Confederate officials captured with him at Irwinville, Georgia, on the 10th were taken down the Savannah River (perhaps right by our Holiday Inn Express on Bay Street where we stayed several weekends ago) to Port Royal.
They were placed on board the steamer William P. Clyde, Master John L. Kelly, shipmaster. The steamer was escorted on her passage to Hampton Roads by the USS Tuscorara, Commander William M. Frailey.
--Old B-Runner
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