Andrew Bee, 4th Michigan Cavalry, Co. L

Courtesy of William A. Brennan

Sons of Union Veterans

collection of Brian Brown

Private Bee, who with his Union comrades from Michigan, was instrumental in the capture of Confederate President Jefferson Davis at Irwinville, Georgia, May 10, 1865. Private Bee was said to have been the first man to lay hands on Davis at Irwinville, and therefore became a celebrity throughout the Union.

LINK

www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-640 for my article on the capture of Jefferson Davis