{"id":536,"date":"2023-11-10T23:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T18:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.skstechsolution.us\/?post_type=country&#038;p=536"},"modified":"2023-11-22T20:30:08","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T15:00:08","slug":"wilcox","status":"publish","type":"county","link":"https:\/\/georgiapioneers.com\/?county=wilcox","title":{"rendered":"Wilcox"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"536\" class=\"elementor elementor-536\" data-elementor-post-type=\"county\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-8e84a6d e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"8e84a6d\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-232c3ab e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"232c3ab\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3f9a392 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The marker text reads as : &#8221; Late on May 8, 1865, Jefferson Davis, with his family and a small escort, camped in Abbeville, unaware that hostile pursuit was close behind. His pursuers, the 1st Wisconsin Cavalry [Federal], Lt. Col. Henry Harnden, arrived the next morning, shortly after his departure. Stopping only to feed and water, Harnden&#8217;s men were moving out in pursuit when the 4th Michigan Cavalry [Federal], Lt. Col. B. D. Pritchard, arrived. Harnden confided to Pritchard both Mr. Davis&#8217; proximity and the probable route; then, after declining an offer of help, he rode on to overtake his command. Pritchard bound downriver to intercept other Confederate officials, rode on some 12 miles: then, abandoning his own mission, he made a forced march and, after finding the Davis camp late that night by posing as the escort, he surrounded it quietly and waited for dawn. Harnden had camped a few miles away. 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