I would like to know if anyone could help me with the first name of Captain Davis listed below? Also Bruce Nichols could you email me at berteramarty@aol.com
The next morning Sunday, 7 September, Captain De Golyer getting as ever restless because of Moore’s inactivity, went out scouting with a small party, came upon the trail of four horsemen, which he followed to the house of a guerilla, Captain (Francis M.?) Davis. Thinking he was safe in familiar surrounding the fighter had come in from his company camp in the swamp, to spend a quiet Sunday with his family and get a have home cook Sunday dinner. Inside the house he heard the approach of horses looking out of his cabin must have been amazed to De Golyer and his men approach. Catch unawares by the of a squad of Yankees, Davis stepped out of the door and very impudently aim and fired his pistol at De Golyer, who promptly returned the compliment, the southern officer fell with a ball through his body and died within a few minutes. He was killed by the revolving rifled captured by Lieutenant Catlin recently from the guerilla captain on an earlier reconnoiter. The three men with Davis were captured and brought back to camp.