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I'm reading Flight Into Oblivion about the Confederate cabinet's flight from Richmond and came across some passing mentions I would like to find out more details about.
pg 96: "Colonel [Charles E.] Thorburn, who had devoted almost one month to maturing plans for the escape of the Confederate leaders, had decided that theonly safe route led through Florida..."
pg 97: "Near Lake City [Thorburn] met Captain Louis M. Coxetter...and arranged with him to make ready the vessel which Coxetter had kept waiting in the Indian River on the East Coast to take Davis and the Cabinet to the Bahamas, Cuba, or Texas."
pg 132: "The boat which Colonel Thorburn, after such careful planning with Captain Coxetter, had held in readiness in the Indian River for the presidential party, had been destroyed when the capture of Jefferson Davis was learned..."
I'm wondering if there are any further details known of Davis' planned escape via the Indian River.
pg 96: "Colonel [Charles E.] Thorburn, who had devoted almost one month to maturing plans for the escape of the Confederate leaders, had decided that theonly safe route led through Florida..."
pg 97: "Near Lake City [Thorburn] met Captain Louis M. Coxetter...and arranged with him to make ready the vessel which Coxetter had kept waiting in the Indian River on the East Coast to take Davis and the Cabinet to the Bahamas, Cuba, or Texas."
pg 132: "The boat which Colonel Thorburn, after such careful planning with Captain Coxetter, had held in readiness in the Indian River for the presidential party, had been destroyed when the capture of Jefferson Davis was learned..."
I'm wondering if there are any further details known of Davis' planned escape via the Indian River.