Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

Picture Courtesy of Jim Kuntz

General Davidson was born on August 18, 1823 in Fairfax County, Virginia. He graduated West Point in 1845 wherefore he was commissioned into the United States Army. During his career he was offered a commission in the Confederate Army, for he was a Virginian by birth, but turned it down, as he remained loyal to the Union. He was a cavalryman and after much time spent in places such as New Mexico fighting the Jicarilla Apaches and participated in the Peninsula Campaign (where he received the brevets of lieutenant colonel and colonel for gallant conduct). He then became the commander of the St. Louis District and the Army of Southeast Missouri. He left this post before 1863 but not without leaving his named attached to a small fort in Pilot Knob, Missouri. Davidson died on June 26, 1881 from complications due to an injury he received four months prior when his horse fell on him at Fort Custer, Montana.

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