Jefferson Davis in Concord
Concord, Cabarrus County, North Carolina
Marker Inscription
Jefferson Davis. President, Confederate States of America, spent the night of April 18, 1865, in house which stood here.
Erected by North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
The Story
On the night of April 18, 1865, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, stopped in Concord during his flight south after the fall of Richmond. The house where he stayed once stood on this spot, a waypoint in the collapse of the Confederacy in the war's final days.
Why it matters
It marks a moment in the dramatic final flight of the Confederate government, when the war's end was being decided not on the battlefield but on the roads of the fleeing South.
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