3-017-107 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Last Days of the Confederate Government - Mr. Jefferson Davis signing acts of government by the roadside, 1865. '...from a sketch by our special artist...[showing] Mr. Davis and his Cabinet halting by the roadside; the ex-President engaged in signing papers which Mr. Benjamin, his Secretary of State, is handing to him. This was probably the last official business transacted by the Confederate Cabinet, and may well be termed "Government by the roadside." Our readers must bear in mind that at any moment the alarm might be given of the enemy's advance, and, to say the least, such a condition of matters was scarcely calculated to give calmness to the deliberations of the fugitive Government'. From "Illustrated London News", 1865.