Davis and Benjamin are suspected of having…

Davis and Benjamin are suspected of having plotted Lincoln's assassination and, as the martyred Lincoln is compared to Christ in the Northern press, Benjamin is pilloried as Judas.

With the South defeated, Benjamin fears that he will never receive a fair trial if charged with Lincoln's murder.

He stays with his friend Davis until May 3, when he leaves the Confederate president's company at the Savannah River in Georgia. (Disguised, he will travel to Florida, then sail to the West Indies, eventually settling in England, where he will enroll at Lincoln's Inn, London, as a barrister in 1866. After becoming Queen's Counsel for Lancashire County in 1872, he will become so successful that by 1877, he will accept no case for for a fee less than 300 guineas [$1,500].)

President Davis is captured at Irwinville, Georgia, on May 10. (Imprisoned for two years at Fortress Monroe and never brought to trial, he will later make his home in Beauvoir, Mississippi, and write The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government in 1881.)