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Fourth Cavalry III
These articles I brought to Wash-ington and turned them over to the Secretary of War. "This closes my account of the capture and custody, up to the time of his being turned over to the United States authorities, of the great conspirator and traitor Jefferson Davis. but I would not close this report without recording my evidence of the high merits due to every officer and soldier in the command for their earnest zeal and untiring perseverance through many sleepless nights and long, weary marches, going entirely without food for forty-eight consecutive hours; and it is with great consolation that I am able to state that whatever efforts were put forth, either by individuals or by the command, for the capture of Davis,
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