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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Davidson , John Wynn ,1824 -1881 (search)
Davidson, John Wynn, 1824-1881
Military officer; born in Fairfax county, Va., Aug. 18, 1824; graduated at West Point in 1845, entering the dragoons.
Accompanying Kearny to California in 1846, he was in the principal battles of the war with Mexico.
He was also active in New Mexico, afterwards, against the Indians.
In 1861 he was made major of cavalry, and early in 1862 brigadiergeneral of volunteers, commanding a brigade in the Army of the Potomac.
After serving in the campaign on the Peninsula, he was transferred (August, 1862) to the Department of the Mississippi, and cooperated with General Steele in the capture of Little Rock, Ark. He was brevetted major-general of volunteers in March, 1865; promoted to lieutenant-colonel, 10th Cavalry, in 1866; was Professor of Military Science in Kansas Agricultural College in 1868-71; promoted to colonel, 2d Cavalry, in 1879.
He died in St. Paul, Minn., June 26, 1881.