Unknown Jeff's Last Dodge
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09780.01 Author/Creator: Unknown Place Written: s.l. Type: Photograph Date: 1865 Pagination: 1 carte de visite ; 6.4 x 10.1 cm. Order a Copy
One carte de visite labelled, "Jeff's Last Dodge," dated circa 1865. Image displays Jefferson Davis in a dress, fleeing from his tent in order to evade capture by Union soldiers. Other illustrated character call out to him as "old lady."
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