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Wheeling Sunday Register
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia
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Historical account of Jefferson Davis eloping with General Taylor's daughter: borrowed horse in Grant County, Wis., married in Galena by Justice Corrine; Taylor forgave him after brave charge at Monterey. (148 characters)
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
When Jefferson Davis ran away with Gen. Taylor's lovely daughter he came in a rickety conveyance as far as Burt's Mill, in Grant county, Wis., owned by the father of Hon. Charles S. Burt, of Dubuque, Iowa, and who is now living in the town of Dunleith, that county. Mr. Burt, knowing the young Lieutenant well and strongly sympathizing with him in his love affair, loaned him a fleet horse and buggy, with which Davis drove to Galena with his lady-love and was married in the office of the late Justice Corrine, who was a Methodist exhorter as well as a magistrate. General Taylor was an enemy of Davis for depriving him of his daughter until the gallant charge of his son-in-law at Monterey, when he rode up to him in the field and, grasping him by the hand, forgave him and enthusiastically complimented him for his bravery.
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davis and taylor's daughter were married in galena; general taylor forgave davis after his charge at monterey and complimented his bravery.
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Jefferson Davis ran away with Gen. Taylor's daughter in a rickety conveyance to Burt's Mill in Grant county, Wis., where Mr. Burt loaned him a fleet horse and buggy to drive to Galena for marriage in Justice Corrine's office. General Taylor was initially an enemy but forgave him after the battle of Monterey.