DAVIS TAKEN! His Wife, Sister and Brother Secured: The Rebel Postmaster-General Reagan Also Captured; RELENTLESS AND SUCCESSFUL PURSUIT (5/15/1865)

OFFICIAL. WAR DEPARTMENT, Washington, May 13. Maj.-Gen. Dix: The following dispatch, just received from Gen. WILSON, announces the surprise and capture of JEFFERSON DAVIS and his staff, by Col. PRITCHARD and the Michigan Cavalry, on the morning of the 10th inst., at Irwinsville, in Irwin County, Georgia. EDWIN M. STANTON. Secretary of War. MACON, GA., May 12, 1865 -- 11 A.M. Lieut.-Gen. U.S. Grant and Hon. Secretary of War, Washington, D.C.: I have the honor to report that at daylight of the 10th inst., Col. PRITCHARD, commanding Fourth Michigan Cavalry, captured JEFF. DAVIS and family, with REAGAN, Postmaster-General; Col. HARRISON,...