Because the railroad leading south out of Greensboro had been destroyed, the Cabinet's escape from the city was made on horseback and in a train with additional wagons, ambulances, and carriages, also carrying some Confederate archives papers, the C.S.A. Treasury banknotes and remnants of gold/silver bullion. The last official meetings of the presidential Cabinet of the Confederate States took place at Charlotte on April 24 and 26, then later on May 4. When President Davis left Washington, Georgia, the party consisted only of his aides and Postmaster General Reagan. Elements of the United States Cavalry captured Davis and his companions at an encampment near Irwinville, Georgia on May 10, 1865.