The End and C.S. Naval Academy-- Part 3: Saved the Treasury and Disbanded

Lt. Parker decided not to disband the midshipmen and took it upon himself to take the Confederate treasury with him and go looking for President Davis or someone in the Treasury Department.  The force returned to Washington, Georgia, and then to Abbeville, S.C. in hopes of meeting them.

They arrived in Abbeville on April 29 and stored the treasury in a warehouse.  President Davis arrived on the 30th, accompanied by Secretary of the Navy Stephen Mallory.  Parker turned the treasury over to  the Acting Secretary of the Treasury who had them deliver it to Brigadier General Basil  W. Duke, commander of the cavalry detachment escorting the president.

On May 2, after just two years of existence the Confederate Naval Academy ceased to exist at Abbeville, S.C.,   Parker issued a written order to each midshipman detaching them from the academy, and after this, each one was given $40 in gold to help them reach their homes.

--Old Secesh