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North Carolina Patriots of ’61 -- Colonel William Lee Davidson of Mecklenburg County:
Colonel Davidson was born at Oak Lawn plantation in Mecklenburg County 10 February 1825, son of Benjamin Wilson and Elizabeth Latta Davidson. He attended Davidson College, named for relative Brigadier-General William Lee Davidson who was killed fighting the British at Cowan’s Ford, North Carolina in 1781.
He was a Mexican War veteran and a merchant before 1861. At the outbreak of war with the North, Davidson was elected Captain of his Mecklenburg company on 16 May 1861, mustered as Company D, 7th North Carolina Regiment at Camp Mason in Graham in August 1861. He was promoted to Major 24 February 1863; and Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 May 1863. The 7th North Carolina included men from Iredell, Alexander (Alexander State Troops), Cabarrus (Cabarrus Minute Men), Rowan, New Hanover, Mecklenburg, Nash (Stanhope Tiger Guards) and Wake (Wake Rangers) counties. The regiment saw action at New Bern, Hanover Court House, Seven Days’, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Appomattox
Colonel Davidson was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, wounded again at the Wilderness, captured by the enemy at the latter. Exchanged in August 1864, he was promoted to Colonel on 28 November 1864 and was paroled on 15 May 1865 in Charlotte.
Living in Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina and Lincolnton, North Carolina in the postwar, Colonel Davidson worked as a lawyer and clerk for several railroads. He married Anne Irvine in 1870, died in Chester, South Carolina 13 August 1899. He is buried in St. Luke’s Episcopal Cemetery in Lincolnton.
(Source: Confederate Colonels, Bruce S. Allardice, University of Missouri Press, 2008)
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North Carolina Patriots of ’61 -- Colonel William Lee Davidson of Mecklenburg County:
Colonel Davidson was born at Oak Lawn plantation in Mecklenburg County 10 February 1825, son of Benjamin Wilson and Elizabeth Latta Davidson. He attended Davidson College, named for relative Brigadier-General William Lee Davidson who was killed fighting the British at Cowan’s Ford, North Carolina in 1781.
He was a Mexican War veteran and a merchant before 1861. At the outbreak of war with the North, Davidson was elected Captain of his Mecklenburg company on 16 May 1861, mustered as Company D, 7th North Carolina Regiment at Camp Mason in Graham in August 1861. He was promoted to Major 24 February 1863; and Lieutenant-Colonel on 3 May 1863. The 7th North Carolina included men from Iredell, Alexander (Alexander State Troops), Cabarrus (Cabarrus Minute Men), Rowan, New Hanover, Mecklenburg, Nash (Stanhope Tiger Guards) and Wake (Wake Rangers) counties. The regiment saw action at New Bern, Hanover Court House, Seven Days’, Second Manassas, Ox Hill, Sharpsburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Cold Harbor, Wilderness, Spotsylvania, and Appomattox
Colonel Davidson was wounded in action at Chancellorsville, wounded again at the Wilderness, captured by the enemy at the latter. Exchanged in August 1864, he was promoted to Colonel on 28 November 1864 and was paroled on 15 May 1865 in Charlotte.
Living in Kentucky, Tennessee, South Carolina and Lincolnton, North Carolina in the postwar, Colonel Davidson worked as a lawyer and clerk for several railroads. He married Anne Irvine in 1870, died in Chester, South Carolina 13 August 1899. He is buried in St. Luke’s Episcopal Cemetery in Lincolnton.
(Source: Confederate Colonels, Bruce S. Allardice, University of Missouri Press, 2008)
NC Patriots of ’61 -- Colonel William Lee Davidson
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