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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Skelton, post: 3658525, member: 92092&quot;]&quot;Fearing capture Mr. Davis divided all the money in his possession among his faithful followers, each man receiving twenty-six dollars.&nbsp; In the share falling to Mr. Godman was a five-dollar sovereign, which he still keeps as a relic and which is all he has to show for his long and arduous service.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the quote about my great grandfather from a history of the county where he lived at the time this was written, and that is the sovereign I&#039;ve been talking about.&nbsp; So the time would have been right at the end of the Civil War.&nbsp; After this disbursement, Jeff Davis and a few others went on without the bodyguard and were eventually captured.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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