At the close of the War Between the States, after Richmond had fallen, Jefferson Davis, 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 on May 9, 1865. At dawn on May 10, two detachments of Federal Cavalry surrounded the camp, and Davis was made a prisoner of war. The camp site in the grove is now Jefferson Davis Memorial State Park.