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Size: 1 box, (.5 linear feet) Acquisition: Gift, 1985 Access: Open for research Processed by: Sally Ann Batchelor, 1989 |
Nicholas A. Davis was born in Limestone County, Alabama on August 8, 1824. He entered the Presbyterian ministry full time in Northern Alabama before moving to Bastrop, Texas in 1857. In Bastrop he continued to preach and serve the Cumberland Presbyterian Church. At the start of the Civil War, Davis joined the 4th Texas Infantry and went with troops to Virginia, where he served as chaplain under John Bell Hood. The diary he kept during the war was published under the title The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, and later in an expanded version entitled Chaplain Davis and Hood's Texas Brigade.
After the war, Davis returned to farming and preaching and began building churches over the state. For many years he was a Trinity University trustee. He was president of Rusk Transportation Company, and also established the first commercial orchard at Jacksonville, Texas. Davis died in San Antonio on November 19, 1894.
("DAVIS, NICHOLAS A." The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/fda46.html [Accessed Tue Oct 21 11:03:39 US/Central 2003].)
Typescript of unpublished manuscript by Reverend S.B.(Sam) Bedinger entitled "The Story of Nicholas A. Davis" which consists of materials relating to the life of Nicholas A. Davis. It includes Davis' early background, his years as chaplain in Hood's Brigade and his varied life after returning to Texas from the war which included building churches, serving as a Trinity University Trustee and as president of Rusk Transportation Company.
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