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Confederate (CSA)

Sergeant

Miles A. Davis

(c. 1826 - 1865)

Home State: Georgia

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: Cobb's (GA) Legion, Infantry Battalion

Before Sharpsburg

Age 34, he enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Decatur, GA and mustered on 5 August as a Private in Company C, Cobb's Legion Infantry Battalion. He was 2nd Corporal by December 1861 and promoted to 3rd Sergeant in 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was frequently in hospitals in 1862, with no military record after August 1863 with the Legion.

He transferred as a Private to Company D of the 3rd Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters on 1 January 1864, was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865, and sent to Point Lookout, MD. He died there of chronic dysentery on 13 June 1865.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Crampton's Gap wound detail from a partial casualty list in the Atlanta Southern Confederacy of 16 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Sarah Ann McAllister (1834-1873) in September 1851 and they had a son, Thomas Langford Davis(1858/9-1946/7).

Birth

c. 1826; Dillon, SC

Death

06/13/1865; Point Lookout, MD; burial in Point Lookout Confederate Cemetery, Scotland, MD

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 33949]

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