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3 unusual facts about Jim Limber


Jim Limber

Some recounts of the story say this was due to a swift kidnapping of Limber by the Union Army, while other accounts say that the Davises recognized a Union general they knew well, Rufus Saxton.

When the Davises were captured by Union forces in Irwinville, Georgia, on May 15, Jim was separated from them.

Jim Limber, also known as Jim Limber Davis, was a mulatto boy who was briefly a ward of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America.



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