| Georgia (Irwin County), Irwinville — 11 J-5 — Irwinville | | | Jefferson Davis was made a prisoner of war at the close of the War Between the States. Richmond having fallen, the President of the Confederate States was seeking to reach remaining forces beyond the Mississippi. With his family and staff he made his last camp in a Georgia pine grove, May 9, 1865. At dawn May 10, the camp was surrounded by two detachments of Federal Cavalry.
The camp in the grove is now Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park. — Map (db m10566) | | Georgia (Irwin County), Irwinville — 077- 6 — Jefferson Davis | | | Late on May 8, the night before his arrival at this site, Mr. Davis and his party had camped in Abbeville (26 miles NE), unaware that pursuit was close behind. Their pursuers, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry (US), Lt. Col. Henry Harnden, had learned in Dublin of their passage and, after many hours of trailing through swamps and over boggy roads, reached Abbeville shortly after Mr. Davis’ departure. Stopping only to feed and water, Harnden's men were resuming the pursuit when the 4th Michigan Cavalry . . . — Map (db m10567) | | Georgia (Irwin County), Irwinville — Jefferson Davis | | | (front):
Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America 1861-1865 (reverse): On this spot May 10, 1865 President Jefferson Davis was made a prisoner of war by Federal troops Erected by the State of Georgia Eugene Talmadge, governor in the year 1935 Sponsored by Mary V. Henderson Chapter and the Georgia Division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy Mrs. Ralph H. Johnson Chairman Memorial Committee Mrs. T.W. Reed President Georgia Division Mrs. . . . — Map (db m10568) | | Georgia (Irwin County), Irwinville — 077-5 — Jefferson Davis | | | On May 4, 1865, Jefferson Davis arrived in Washington, Georgia (178 miles NE), where he performed his last duties as President of the Confederate States of America. Soon thereafter, with a small staff and escort, he departed enroute to the trans-Mississippi Department where, undaunted by the tragic surrenders at Appomattox and Durham Station, he intended to unite he forces of Generals E. Kirby Smith, Taylor, Forrest, Maury and Magruder “to form an army, which in the portion of that . . . — Map (db m10569) | | Georgia (Irwin County), Ocilla — 077-7 — Dorminy's Meeting House Young's Meeting House Brushy Creek | | | Dorminy`s Meeting House was constituted December 17, 1831, on a site 1 mile Northwest of Irwinville, near the home of John B. Dorminy, Sr. The Church was of the
Primitive Baptist faith, and the elders constituting it were the Rev. J. Baker and the Rev. John Marshall. Organizing members were: John Dorminy, Sr., Rachel Dorminy, Samuel Goff, Tobitha Goff, Susan Jernigan, Richard Tucker, Thomas Wooddard, Nancy Wooddard, Sarah Smith. John Dorminy, Sr., was Clerk.
The Rev. Archibald Odum was . . . — Map (db m14393) | | Georgia (Irwin County), Ocilla — 077-1 — Old Coffee Road | | | The highway leading north and south at this point is the Old Coffee Road, earliest vehicular and postal route of this section. Beginning at Swain's Ferry on the Ocmulgee River, it ran this way to the Florida Line via today's Lax, Nashville, Cecil, Barwick and Thomasville. The thouroughfare was opened in 1823 by order of the State under the superintendence of General John Coffee and Thomas Swain. Near this place the Coffee Road was crossed by the Columbus-St. Mary's Road which was opened by the . . . — Map (db m19175) |
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