Historical Marker

Last Cabinet Meeting of the C.S.A.

Washington · Wilkes County

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This marker fixes the spot where the Washington branch bank stood, the building in which Davis held the Confederate cabinet's final session on May 4, 1865, formally ending the C.S.A. government.

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Last Cabinet Meeting of the C.S.A. is a historical marker in Washington, Wilkes County. It is one of 63 historical markers documented in Wilkes County, among 123 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 33.7380, -82.7393 near Washington. The nearest cataloged historic site is The Dissolution of the Confederate Government (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Jefferson Davis, In Memory of Cpl. M. Philip Scarborough, USMC, and Wilkes County.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.

📍 33.7380, -82.7393 · Washington, Wilkes County

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