Indiana and Indianans, Vol. 4
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Excerpt from Indiana and Indianans, Vol. 4: A History of Aboriginal and Territorial Indiana and the Century of Statehood Gen. Jefferson C. Davis. One of the most distinguished Indianans who made military life his profession was Gen. Jefferson C. Davis, who first volunteered his services to the profession of arms at the outbreak of the war with Mexico, and was a member of the regular army thereafter for thirty years. He was born in Clark County, Indiana, March 2, 1827. He was of an old Kentucky family. His grandparents, William and Charlotte Davis, died in Kentucky, the former in 1840, at the age of sixty-seven, and the latter on May 6, 1851. William Davis, Jr., father of General Davis, was born July 29, 1800, and died March 21, 1879. He married Mary Drummond, who was born June 24, 1801, and died November 24, 1881. Their children were: Jefferson C.; James W., born February 24, 1829, died October 12, 1906; John, born December 27, 1830, died May 6, 1859; Joseph, born November 14, 1832, died August 6, 1867; George, born November 21, 1834, died in March, 1901; William, born March 5, 1838, died November 25, 1910; Matilda Anne, born September 5, 1841, died July 19, 1890; Thomas Benton, born August 22, 1844, died in October, 1911. Joseph, George and William all also served in the Civil war, and Dr. Thomas Davis was contract surgeon in the regular army. Jefferson C. Davis spent his boyhood days near Charleston in Clark County, Indiana, on his father´s farm. His military genius was inherited from a military ancestry, some of his forefathers having fought in the Indian wars of Kentucky. While a school boy in Clark County attending a seminary he heard of the declaration of war with Mexico, and enlisted in Colonel Lane´s Indiana Regiment. For gallant conduct at the battle of Buena Vista he was made second lieutenant of the First Artillery June 17, 1848. He became a first lieutenant in the regular army in 1852. In 1858 he was assigned to duty in the garrison at Fort Sumter, South Carolina. About three years later he was with that garrison when Major Anderson consolidated the forces in Charleston Harbor at Fort Sumter, and General Davis was officer of the guard when the first shot whistled over the fort April 12, 1861, this being the first shot fired by the Confederates, the act that precipitated the long and costly Civil war. For this service he received a medal from the New York Chamber of Commerce, one of these medallions being presented to each of the defenders. In May, 1861, General Davis was promoted to a captaincy and was given leave of absence to raise the Twenty-second Indiana Volunteers. As colonel of the regiment he saw active service in the Missouri campaign, participating in the battles of Lexington, Boonville and Black water, and later at Pea Ridge, Arkansas. In December, 1861, he was promoted to command of a brigade, and was under General Fremont and later under Generals Hunter and Pope. For services rendered at Milford, Missouri, December 18,1861, when he aided in capturing a superior force of the enemy and a large quantity of military supplies, he was made brigadier general of volunteers. At the battle of Pea Ridge he commanded one of the four divisions of General Curtis´ army. He was also at the siege of Corinth, and was then assigned to the Army of the Tennessee. He led his old division of the Twentieth Army Corps into the fight at Stone River, and for his bravery was recommended by General Rosecrans for major general. In 1864 he commanded the Fourteenth Corps of Sherman´s army in the Atlanta campaign, and in the march from Atlanta to the sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
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