Letter: Beauvoir, Mississippi to Major Walker Taylor, 1889 August 31.

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Letter: Beauvoir, Mississippi to Major Walker Taylor, 1889 August 31.

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Davis requests Walker's recollections on the plan to capture Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, which Davis declined to entertain for fear Lincoln would be killed rather than kidnapped, to help disprove the accusations that Davis was involved in assassination attempts on Lincoln.

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