Gen. William Watts Hart Davis and Anna Carpenter

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Husband Gen. William Watts Hart Davis ¹

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         Father: Gen. John Davis (1788-1876) 2
         Mother: Amy Hart (1784/1784-1847) 2

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       Marriage: 24 Jun 1856 1

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Wife Anna Carpenter ¹

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. William Watts Hart Davis

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He was educated at the local schools, Doylestown Academy, Newtown Academy, Dr. Aaron's Classical School at Burlington, New Jersey, and Partridge's University and Military Academy at Norwich, Vermont, graduating at the latter institution in 1842, with the degree of A. M. and M. M. S. In the same year he was appointed instructor of mathematics and commandant of cadets at Portsmouth Military Academy, Virginia, where he remained for three years. He studied law in the office of Judge John Fox, at Doylestown, Pennsylvania, and was admitted to the Bucks County bar in 1846. In the same year he entered Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and while there enlisted in the First Massachusetts Infantry, for the Mexican war, and was commissioned First Lieutenant Dec. 31, 1846, of Capt. Crowningshield's company, in Col. Caleb Cushing's regiment; became Adjutant, Jan. 16, 1847, Aide-de-camp, June 1, 1847; acting Asst. Adjutant General, July 18, 1847; acting Quartermaster and Inspector, Oct. 29, 1848; Captain Co. I, March 16, 1848, and served throughout the war.
He returned to Doylestown after the war and practiced law until 1853, when he was appointed U. S. Attorney for New Mexico, and spent nearly four years in that territory, during which time he filled the offices of Attorney-General, Secretary of the Territory, Acting Governor, and Superintendent of Indian Affairs. He returned to Doylestown in 1857, and purchased the Doylestown Democrat, the official organ of his party, which he ably edited and published until 1890. At the outbreak of the Civil War, he took to the front the Doylestown Guards, Company I, 25th Penna. Regiment, of which he was commissioned Captain, April 16, 1861, and served with it in the campaign in the Shenandoah Valley; returned to Doylestown and recruited the 104th Regiment, Penna. Vols., of which he was commissioned Colonel, Sept. 5, 1861; served with it through the whole war, frequently filling positions and exercising commands commensurate with much higher rank; was Provincial Brigade Commander, Nov. 11, 1861; commanded First Brigade, Casey's division, Fourth Corps, Nov. 30, 1861; wounded at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862; commanded First Brigade, Second Division, Eighteenth Corps, Jan. 11, 1863; (Second Division, First Corps) March 10, 1863; commanded U. S. forces at Port Royal Island, S. C., May 27, 1862; Post of Beaufort, S. C., June 14, 1863; First Brigade, Terry's Division, July 8, 1863, at siege of Charleston, S. C.; commanded U. S. forces at Morris Island, S. C., Jan. 19, 1864, and at Hilton Head, Port Pulaski, St. Helena, and Tybee Islands, S. C., April 18, 1864; First Brigade, Hatch's division, July 4, 1864; wounded at siege of Charleston, July 6, 1864; mustered out, Sept. 30, 1864; brevetted Brigadier General, U. S. Vols., March 13, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious services, during operations against Charleston, South Carolina. He is the author of the following publications: "El Gringo," 1857; "Span-ish Conquest of New Mexico," 1869; "History of 104th Regiment Pennsylvania Volun-teers," 1866; "History of the Hart Family of Bucks County," 1867; "Life of General John Lacy," 1868; "History of Bucks County," First Edition, 1876, Second Edition, 1905; "Life of John Davis," 1886; "Doylestown Guards," 1887; "Campaign of 1861, in the Shenandoah Valley," 1893; "Fries Rebellion," 1899; "Doylestown, Old and New," 1904; and numerous lectures, essays and historical papers and addresses.
He was President of the Bucks County Historical Society, almost from its organization till well into the twentieth century.

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General Notes: Wife - Anna Carpenter

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from Brooklyn, NY

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 379.

2 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 377.