Person:Charles Davis (118)

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Charles Henry Davis
b.16 Jan 1807
d.18 Feb 1877
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  1. Anna Cabot Mills Davis1851 - 1916
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Name Charles Henry Davis
Gender Male
Birth[1] 16 Jan 1807
Marriage to Harriette Blake Mills
Death[1] 18 Feb 1877
Burial[2] Cambridge Cemetery, Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Reference Number? Q5078930?


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Charles Henry Davis ( – ) was an American rear admiral of the United States Navy. While working for the U.S. Coast Survey, he researched tides and currents, and located an uncharted shoal that had caused wrecks off of the coast of New York. During the American Civil War, he commanded the Western Gunboat Flotilla, where he won an important engagement in the First Battle of Memphis before capturing enemy supplies on a successful expedition up the Yazoo River.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Charles Henry Davis, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
  2. ↑ Charles Henry Davis, in Find A Grave.
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