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Civil War Soldiers - Davies
| Davies, Henry E., major-general, U.S.
Army, was born in New York city, July 2, 1836, was educated at Harvard
and Williams colleges, and at Columbia, in which he was graduated, and
in the same year, 1857, he was admitted to the bar. He entered the
volunteer service in April, 1861, as captain in the 5th N. Y.
regiment, was made major of the 2nd N. Y. cavalry in July of that
year, and served in the cavalry corps, Army of the Potomac, as colonel
and brigadier-general, having command of a division at the close of
the war. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers, Oct. 1, 1864,
having been promoted brigadier-general, Sept. 16, 1863, and was given
the full rank of major-general of volunteers, May 4, 1865. He served
with distinction throughout the war, and resigned from the service
Jan. 1, 1866. He commanded the middle district of Alabama during the
reconstruction, 1865, until he resigned. He was public administrator,
after the war, in New York city, 1866-69, assistant U. S. district
attorney, 1870-72, and thereafter refused public office in order that
he might devote himself to the practice of law. He died in Middleboro,
Mass., Sept. 6, 1894. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Davies, Thomas A., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born at Black Lake, St. Lawrence county, N. Y., Dec. 3,
1809, was graduated at West Point in 1829, and, after serving two
years on frontier duty, resigned to become civil engineer on the
Croton aqueduct, and to enter mercantile pursuits in New York city. He
reentered the national service, May 15, 1861, as colonel of the 16th
N. Y. regiment, and distinguished himself at the battle of Bull Run,
where, as commander of the 2nd brigade, 5th division, Army of the
Potomac, he successfully repulsed an attack upon the left wing after
the main body of the Federal army was in full flight, thus preventing
the capture of Washington. At the close of the battle he was placed in
command of the left wing of the army by Gen. McDowell, was afterwards
engaged on fortifications around Washington and in the defenses of
Alexandria, until March 7, 1862, when he was commissioned
brigadier-general for "gallant conduct at the battle of Bull Run," and
joined Gen. Halleck's army at Corinth. He engaged in the siege of that
place in April and May, 1862, in the battle of Corinth, Oct. 3-4,
1862; commanded Columbus, Ky., 1862-63; Rollo, Mo., 1863-64; the
district of North Kansas, 1864-65, and that of Wisconsin in 1865. His
services being no longer needed in Wisconsin, he resigned his
commission, in June, 1865, and on July 11, 1865, was brevetted
major-general of volunteers, "for gallant and meritorious services."
After the war he devoted a good deal of his time to literature, and
was the author of numerous books on religious criticism and kindred
subjects. He died at Black Lake, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1899.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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