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傑佛遜‧大衛斯

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傑佛遜‧大衛斯 (Jefferson Davis) 於1865510日被抓了

南方聯盟的總統傑佛遜‧大衛斯被抓了!

傑佛遜‧大衛斯 (1808-1889) ,是南方聯盟在內戰期間的總統,於1865510日在喬治亞州的爾文村 (Irwinville) 被聯邦軍隊逮捕。他手下的大將羅伯特‧李 (Robert E. Lee) 將軍於49日在維吉尼亞州的阿波馬托斯 (Appomattox) ,向尤利塞斯·格蘭特 (Ulysses S. Grant) 將軍投降,也正式為內戰劃上終點。當李將軍向北方聯盟投降時,大衛斯和他的內閣逃到南方,希望能夠重新整頓,取得較好的優勢,繼續和北方各州進行戰鬥。


Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy, had been captured!

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), president of the Confederate states (the South) during the Civil War, was captured when the Union Army caught up to him on May 10, 1865, in Irwinville, Georgia. His best general, Robert E. Lee, had surrendered on April 9 at Appomattox in Virginia to General Ulysses S. Grant, which effectively ended the Civil War. When Lee surrendered to the North, Davis and his Cabinet moved south, hoping to continue the struggle until better terms could be secured from the North.

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