Jefferson Davis's Mission to Toronto Saved His Life

The rumour had spread through Toronto that Jefferson Davis, President of the late Confederate States of America, would be among the passengers. The papers had closely followed Davis’s release from prison a few days earlier and his journey by train through Washington to New York and from there Montreal, where his family had lived for the past two years. Now Davis was coming to Toronto on a mission he would later tell General Robert E. Lee probably saved his life.

--Adam Mayers, Dixie and the Dominion: Canada, the Confederacy, and the War for the Union (Toronto: The Dundurn Group, 2003), ??.