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  1. Sam Davis. (1842–63). American soldier and courier Sam Davis became a well-known Confederate figure during the American Civil War. He was lauded for his loyalty to the Confederate cause and was given the nickname “the boy hero of the Confederacy.”. Samuel Davis was born on October 6, 1842, in Rutherford county, Tennessee, near the town of ...

  2. Jul 30, 2020 · Dewitt Smith Jobe was killed in August 1864, approximately nine months after Davis was captured and hanged. Known as the “Boy Hero of the Confederacy,” Sam Davis' story was resurrected from obscurity in the late 1800s by journalist Archibald Cunningham, founder of the Confederate Veteran magazine. There are monuments erected in Sam Davis ...

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  3. Jul 30, 2023 · Samuel Davis, the recently installed president of the Morrisville Historical Society and impersonator of George Washington, is steeped in the rich history of the American Revolution. Specifically, the part played by Summerseat. According to Davis, it was the “House of Decision.”

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  5. Learn about Sam Davis, a Confederate soldier and spy who was executed by Union troops in 1863. Find out his biography, military service, and legacy on the American Battlefield Trust website.

  6. Who was Sam Davis ? Born on October 6, 1842, in Rutherford County, Tennessee, Samuel Davis grew up in the comfortable environment of an upper middle class family. The oldest son of Charles Lewis and Jane Simmons Davis, he attended the local Smyrna schools until leaving home in 1860 to attend Western Military Academy in Nashville.

  7. Jan 24, 2007 · The National Convention of Colored Citizens which met in Buffalo, New York from August 15 to 19, 1843 is best remembered as the venue for the speech by Rev. Henry Highland Garnet calling on the slaves to “throw off their chains.”. However the chair of the convention, Samuel H. Davis of Buffalo, also gave an important oration calling on ...

  8. Samuel Davies (born November 3, 1723, New Castle county, Delaware—died February 4, 1761, Princeton, New Jersey) was a Presbyterian preacher in the American colonies who defended religious dissent and helped lead the Southern phase of the religious revival known as the Great Awakening. Davies was educated at Samuel Blair’s “log college ...

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