Jeff. Davis! As women and children.. Cartoon shows Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, dressed as a woman and holding a Bowie knife, labeled Arkansas tooth-pick in order to avoid capture by Union soldiers after the American Civil War ended. The caption below the image quotes J. Davis, in his last extremity, saying, Is not your Government more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children?. Date 1865?. Jeff. Davis! As women and children.. Cartoon shows Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States of America, dressed as a woman and holding a Bowie knife, labeled Arkansas tooth-pick in order to avoid capture by Union soldiers after the American Civil War ended. The caption below the image quotes J. Davis, in his last extremity, saying, Is not your Government more magnanimous than to hunt down women and children?. Date 1865?.