[New York] Davis, Benjamin F - Unit: 8th Cavalry, Company: [Blank] - Enlistment Rank: Col, Discharge Rank: Co

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[New York] Davis, Benjamin F - Unit: 8th Cavalry, Company: [Blank] - Enlistment Rank: Col, Discharge Rank: Co

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United States. Army. New York Cavalry Regiment, 8th (1861-1865)

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Davis, Benjamin Franklin, 1831-1863

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Born in Alabama, Davis was the eldest of six sons born to Benjamin E. and Matilda Holladay Davis between 1831 and 1843. Matilda Davis died in 1843. Benjamin E. Davis died in June 1846. Benjamin Davis and his five younger brothers became wards of an uncle, William Taylor, who lived in Monroe County, Mississippi. Davis was appointed from Mississippi to the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, graduating in 1854. Among his classmates were Jeb Stuart, Stephen H. Weed, Oliver Otis ...