Davis, Charles Henry

Life Span
to
Full name
Charles Henry Davis
Place of Birth
Boston, MA
Burial Place
Cambridge, MA
Birth Date Certainty
Exact
Death Date Certainty
Exact
Gender
Male
Race
White
Sectional choice
North
Origins
Free State
No. of Spouses
1
No. of Children
2
Family
Daniel Davis (father), Harriette Blake Miles (wife)
Education
Harvard
Occupation
Military
Scientist or Inventor
Relation to Slavery
White non-slaveholder
Military
US military (Pre-Civil War)
Union Navy
US military (Post-Civil War)
Date Event
Union troops suffer a heavy defeat at Ball's Bluff on the Virginia side of the Potomac
The "Stone Fleet" sets sail from New Bedford, Massachusetts
The "Stone Fleet" sets sail from Port Royal, South Carolina for Charleston Harbor
- The U.S. Navy's "Stone Fleet" is deliberately sunk in the channels of Charleston Harbor
Captain Charles H. Davis replaces Commodore A.H. Foote as commander of the Union's Mississippi Flotilla
Sharp half-hour naval engagement on the Mississippi River below Fort Pillow in Tennessee
Civil War at Sea
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