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year. He was engaged in the battles of
the Wilderness and Todds Tavern; in Gen.
Sheridan's cavalry raid in May, 1864; in
the actions at Beaver Dam, Yellow Tav-
ern and Meadow Bridge in the battle of
Hawes' Shop in the actions on the Jerusa-
lem plank road, in the siege at Peters
railway, Strawberry Plains Deep Bottom
Reams Station and Hatcher's Run.
After the War.
In June, 1871, he was appointed second
lieutenant of the 5th Cavalry and was sta
toned at Fort D. A. Russell, Wyo., and
accompanied a detachment of that regi-
ment via San Francisco and the Gulf Of
California to Camp Bowie Ariz. After
about years service in that vicinity he
was assigned to duty at the Military Acad-
emy as assistant professor OF Spanish,
French, chemistry mineralogy and geology,
serving from August 1873, to August, 1S7S
when he rejoined his regiment in the de-
partment Of the Platte and took part IN the
pursuit of hostile Cheyennes northward
from Sidney into the sand hills of north
western Nebraska. He then marched to
Fort Washable, Wyo., where he was sta
toned as company commander, and after
ward served at Fort d. A. Russell and Fort
Niobrara Neb., serving, with occasional
tours of detached service, as company
commander until August, 1883, when he
was transferred to the Military Academy
as assistant professor Of history and law.
Appointed Judge Advocate.
He was appointed judge advocate, with
the rank of major, December 10, 1883, after
few months service at Washington as
recorder of the board to revise the army
regulations. On being relieved from duty
at the Military Academy In August, 1885,
he rejoined his regiment at Fort Supply,
]. T., and soon after was again assigned to
duty in this city.
He was judge advocate in the well-re-
membered trials of Major G. ]. Lydecker
and Capt. George A. Armes. In May, 1889
he was assigned to duty in the war records
office in this city, and in the following
July he became president of the board Of
preparation of the official records>ef the
war of the rebellion. He held that i'm
portant office until 1895, when he was again
transferred to the Military Academy as
professor of law, and he remained there
until a few months ago, when he was or
dered to this city for special duty in the
Office of the Secretary of War, In anticipa-
tlon of his detail as judge advocate general
Of the army for term of four years, fill
tirement of General Clous.
Some Celebrated Trials.
General Davis has conducted some of the
most important cases in the recent history
of the army. In addition to the cases of
Major Lydecker and Captain Armes, pre-
viously referred to, he was judge advocate
of the cOurt-martial which tried the case
of Commissary General Eagan in 1899, and
during the same year he was recorder Of
the court Of inquiry appointed to investi-
gate the beef scandals during the Spanish
American war. His conduct of those cases
stamped him as one of the ablest and best
informed officers Of the army in matters Of
military Jurisprudence. He Is generally
recognized as an authority in such ques-
tions. Among the standard works Of which
he is the author are Military Laws of the
United States Elements Of International
Law and Military Law and Practice and
Proceedings of Courts-martial."