Lincoln assassination reward, 9th May 1865 (litho)

Reprinting the orders of Gen. James H. Wilson (1837-1925) seeking the arrest of Jefferson Davis (1808-1889), Clement Clay (fl.1864-1865), Jacob Thompson (fl.1864-1865), George N. Saunders (fl.1864-1865), Beverly Tucker (fl.1864-1865) and William C. Cleary (fl.1864-1865). Lists the rewards for the capture of each person as follows: Davis, Clay, and Thompson, ,000 each, Saunders and Tucker, ,000, and Cleary, ,000. James H. Wilson, American Army Officer, Engineer, and Author, was born in 1837 on his family's farm about a mile south of here. He attended Shawneetown schools, McKendree College, and the United States Military Academy. In the spring of 1864, during the Civil War, he commanded Sheridan's Third Cavalry Division. In the spring of 1865, as Brevet Major General, Chief of the Cavalry, Military Division of Mississippi, Wilson led a month-long mounted campaign through Alabama, capping his exploits by surmounting the fortifications at Selma. Detachments under his command captured Jefferson Davis. Wilson also served in the Spanish-American War and the Boxer Rebellion. He died in 1925.