Bio: William H. Davis :Pittsfield, Merrimack Co, New Hampshire

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Submitted by: Rick Giirtman  rickman@worldpath.net
Date: March 15, 2001
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From the Book
'History of Pittsfield, N. H. in the Rebellion'
by H. L. Robinson, published 1893


W. H. DAVIS.
In a small house standing at the corner of Depot and Bank streets in
Pittsfield, William H. Davis was born. He was a son of William and Shuah
(Evans) Davis, and lived with his parents, attending school and working in
his father's shop as a boot-maker, until he enlisted in Company H, Fourth
New Hampshire volunteers. He was mustered into service, September 18, 1861,
and served with his regiment until November 3, 1862, when he was transferred
to the First U. S. artillery. Here he served the remainder of his term. It
would be needless to say that he was a good soldier, for none but the very
best could be transferred from volunteer infantry to the regular artillery.
He was killed in a railroad accident in 1866.

One day while in Florida, I think, Davis went to a public house to get
dinner. The wash basin was on a shelf in the porch, beside it was a bucket
of water with a gourd dipper, over the shelf hung a dirty rag for a towel.
Davis called out, "Here, landlord, can't you give us a clean towel?" "I
reckon so," said that individual, as he arose from the bench on which he
was reclining, and shuffled across the house floor. He got the desired
article, and as he handed it to Davis, remarked, "Yuse 'un is the most
mighty particular man I ever seed. I reckon that ar towel has hung there
three months, and more than five hundred men have wiped on it, and you are
the fust one to find fault with it."