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Title: Annals of the Army of the Cumberland:
Year: 1864 (1860s)
Authors: Fitch, John, fl. 1864
Subjects: United States. Army of the Cumberland Stones River, Battle of, Murfreesboro, Tenn., 1862-1863 Chickamauga, Battle of, Ga., 1863 United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Regimental histories United States -- History Civil War, 1861-1865 Campaigns
Publisher: Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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of his uncles were also active in theearly settlement of that country, and participants in the battleof Tippecanoe and other Indian fights. In 1841, young Davis, who was an apt scholar, entered theClarke County Seminary, at that time one of the most prominentin the State. Here he remained four years, obtaining what wasthen esteemed in the West a liberal education, and was stillattending school there in 1845, when the Mexican War brokeout. The thrilling news from Palo xVlto and Resaca de la Palmaflushed thousands of hearts with excitement, and among themthat of young Davis, now seventeen years of age. Love ofstudy was succeeded by a new and more absorbing passion, athirst for the romance of camp and soldier life; and one morninghe threw down his books, and in the afternoon was the fii^st en-rolled member of a volunteer company, called the ClarkeGuards, raised under the auspices of Captain T. W. Gibson, aWest Pointer in earlier days, then a prominent lawyer of the 158 ^^1©.©!^-. ©AVr
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BRIGADIER-GENERAL JEFFERSON C. DAVIS. 159 county, and now one of the most notable attorneys in Lbuisville,Kentucky, or, indeed, in the West. The regiment of which itwas a part was under the command of the now noted James H.Lane, of Kansas. The subject of our notice participated in thebattle of Buena Yista, and in the entire Mexican campaign,without losing a day from sickness or other cause. For gallant conduct in his regiment he was appointed secondlieutenant in the 1st Regiment of Regular Artillery, to rankfrom June 17, 1848. Receiving his commission near the closeof the war, Lieutenant Davis reported at Cincinnati for iecruit-ing service, where he remained until October, obtaining in thattime many recruits. Peace having been declared, he wasordered to join his company, which had just returned fromMexico and was then at Baltimore. Among his messmates andassociates in the regiment were the present rebel generalsMagruder, (Stonewall) Jackson, Hill, Winder, and Slaughter,and French, Bra

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