SC-30-1 Jefferson Davis Flight


Marker text: JEFFERSON DAVIS' FLIGHT
Jefferson Davis President of the Confederacy on his flight from Richmond, Va. with his Cabinet and other/high ranking officers spent the night of April 30, 1865 at the house 1 1/2 miles west then the home of Lafayette Young. Arriving there from Union, Davis left early next morning for Cokesbury and Abbeville.
Erected by Stephen D. Lee Chapter No. 1066, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Clinton, South Carolina, 1961

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