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About four months later he was promoted to the rank of first lieutenant and served in this rank until the close of the war.
In many of the important engagements of the war he was the acting captain of his company. He commanded his company during the battle of Stone River, in which the company entered the engagement with 32 men and emerged with one-half that number, the other half being either killed, wounded or taken prisoner. Again, at Chickamauga, he commanded his company (Company C) and of the regiment of 365 enlisted men and nine commissioned officers but 69 enlisted men and three commissioned officers returned from the fray, the others having been killed, wounded or captured, the regiment being literally cut to pieces. Captain Davis served in all three years, seven months and seventeen days, during that time taking part in 32 engagements. He was in the battles of Pittsburg Landing, Stone River, Resaca, Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, covering a distance of 122 miles from Chattanooga to Atlanta and the fall of the latter. He participated in all the engagements of that campaign, He was with Sherman at Atlanta and saw that city burned. After Atlanta the regular brigade was ordered back to reinforce Thomas at Nashville and was in the big fight when Hood's army was destroyed. Captain Davis resigned from the service because of ill health.
For one year following the close of the war he was engaged in farming and then entered upon a mercantile and lumber dealing business with his brothers in Ebensburg, under the firm name of Davis Brothers. In 1887 he retired from the business and went to South Dakota in order to try to rid himself of a severe asthmatic condition. Upon his return to Ebensburg he engaged in the real estate business with which he was prominently and successfully identified until his retirement from active business life. He was a conspicuous figure in Cambria County for many years. In politics he was a Republican and repeatedly served as a member of the borough council. In 1876 he accepted the nomination for sheriff and notwithstanding the county was Democratic by 1,268 votes, he was defeated by only 1,011 votes. He was chosen by his party in 1900 to represent them in the legislature and in 1902 was reelected, serving on the railroad committee both terms. He was also a chairman of the local judiciary, corporations, public health and sanitation.
Captain Davis was a member of the G. A. R., John M. Jones Post, also member of the Congregational Church. He was a stockholder in the Amer-
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