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Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, fled from Richmond, Virginia, with his Cabinet and other high-ranking officers and spent the night of April 30, 1865, at the house one and a half miles west, then the home of Lafayette Young. Arriving there from Union, Davis left early the next morning for Cokesbury and Abbeville.
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