24 April 1865 A.D. CHARLOTTE, NC: Confederate President Davis writes his wife about the desperate situation for the Confederate States
24 April 1865 A.D. CHARLOTTE, NC: Confederate President Davis writes his wife about the desperate situation for the Confederate States Editors. “ 1865 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to his wife, Varina, of the desperate situating facing the Confederates. ” This Day in U.S. Military History. N.d. https://thisdayinusmilhist.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/april-23/ . Accessed 22 Apr 2015. 1865 – Confederate President Jefferson Davis writes to his wife, Varina, of the desperate situating facing the Confederates. “Panic has seized the country,” he wrote to his wife in Georgia. Davis was in Charlotte, North Carolina, on his flight away from Yankee troops. It was three weeks since Davis had fled the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia, as Union troops were overrunning the trenches nearby. Davis and his government headed west to Danville, Virginia, in hopes of reestablishing offices there. When General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender his army at Appomattox...