After fleeing Richmond with his cabinet, and hearing of the surrender of General Lee on 9 April, Confederate president Jefferson Davis was finally apprehended by Union cavalry along with his wife on 10 May near Irwinville in Georgia. Davis was imprisoned at Fort Monroe in Virginia, but he was never tried for treason and was released in May 1867. He travelled Europe with his family before returning to the American South.

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