I mentioned this in my September 23rd World War II blog (since he was a Civil War veteran still alive when the United States entered World War II) and also in my September 24th Civil War blog (since he was in the Confederate Army), I will also mention him here in my Civil War Navy blog since he lived and is buried in Wilmington and this contains any and everything on Wilmington.
MICHAEL THOMAS DAVIS (1846-1942) was the last-living Civil War Confederate in New Hanover County, N.C., where Wilmington is located. He was born in Onslow County, N.C., and enlisted in 1863 at age 17. He served in Captain Humphry's Company C, Col. Simon Benjamin Taylor's 35th N.C.Regiment of General Ransom's Brigade.
At the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia, he lost his right arm and is buried in Bellevue Cemetery in Wilmington. There was a picture of him in the May 31, 1939 Wilmington paper.
--Old B-Runner
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