When the press and popular graphics lampooned Jefferson Davis for supposedly being dressed in women’s clothing when he was finally captured, his wife Varina Davis described the scene in a letter to her old friend Montgomery Blair, Postmaster General in Lincoln’s administration. As the Federals approached she had covered Davis with her black shawl but adamantly denied that her husband had worn any female disguise. She was yet more indignant at their treatment by Union soldiers, who she claimed robbed them at every opportunity.