The capture of Jeff Davis was not a rumor, the fact he wore a dress was not a rumor, in fact, it’s quite clear from his wife’s own letter, that Jeff Davis was not only wearing a dress, not only wearing three different female garments (because she describes them) but that Davis was running like a coward leaving his own small children behind as bullets were flying.

The fact that Confederate “scholarship” can make this seem like a rumor is an indictment of all such scholarship. His own wife and soldiers wrote about his female garments, AND his cowardly run. But just because Davis wore a dress — yes he did — and because he ran away as his children were in danger, is not the point. The point is, even 150 years later, it’s not politically correct to show the truth about Southern leaders.