Jefferson Davis's Last Council of War
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Basil W. Duke numbered among five Confederate brigadier generals who escorted President Jefferson Davis as he fled from the Confederate capital after Union forces captured the city on April 3, 1865. Duke recalled Davis state of mind when he called a council of war.
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