What famous Confederate escaped capture during the Civil War by dressing in his wife's clothes?

teash

Jefferson Davis. http://chnm.gmu.edu/lostmuseum/belle/ Jun 15 06, 8:21 AM

Babba06

Although he was eventually captured a short time later. On April 3, 1865, with Union troops under Ulysses S. Grant poised to capture Richmond, Davis escaped for Danville, Virginia, together with the Confederate cabinet, leaving on the Richmond and Danville Railroad. The beleaguered executive stayed in the home of Maj. William T. Sutherlin. It was here where Davis would pen his last official proclamation as President of the Confederacy. Six days after his flight to Danville, he proceeded to Greensboro, North Carolina. On April 16, he made a break for Meridian, Mississippi, but was captured at Irwinville, Georgia on May 10 with Postmaster General John Henninger Reagan and former Texas governor Francis R. Lubbock. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis Jun 15 06, 10:34 AM