Nicholas Davis Jr. (January 14, 1825 – November 3, 1875) was an American politician who served as a Deputy from

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to the

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from April 1861 to February 1862.

Biography

Nicholas Davis Jr. was born in

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, and served in the legislature in 1851. He was elected to the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States to replace

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and served in that capacity from April 1861 to February 1862. He was unsuccessful in organizing his own regiment during the

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and served as lieutenant colonel of the 19th Regiment Alabama Infantry instead.''Welcome the hour of conflict: William Cowan McClellan and the 9th Alabama''
/ edited by John C. Carter. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2007, p. 354

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