Pursuit:. Clint Johnson

that promise. Davis had never eaten much, but had never made any connection that his lifelong poor health and regular attacks of neuralgia may have been linked to his poor diet.

      When the sun rose on April 2, 1865, he had no idea that by the end of the day he would be a president on the run. The end of the Confederacy was obvious to all who would look and listen, but Davis, true to form, had made no plans for running.