Video: 'Ken Burns The Civil War: Episode 9 The Better Angels of Our Nature (1865) |Ken Burns Docum' (May 22, 1865 at 28:07)

(Monday, May 22, 1865) — Former Confederate President Jefferson Davis, captured by union forces on May 10, 1865, was incarcerated for two years beginning today at Fort Monroe, Virginia, made to wear chains in a cell kept perpetually lit.