Jack County, TX - Obituaries - Col. John W. Davidson ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Rural Citizen Thursday, June 30, 1881 Our citizens were shocked to learn a day or two since the death of Col. John W. Davidson of the U.S. Cavalry, which occurred at St. Paul, Minn., on 28 May 1881. Col. Davidson graduated at West Point in 1846 and was commissioned Brevet 2nd Lieutenant in the second dragoon, now the second Cavalry. He served through the war with Mexico with his regiment, and rose by degrees to the rank of captain which rank he held when the rebellion broke out. He served principally in the southwest during the war and was brevetted at various times for gallantry, having been made Major Geneteral in 1865. At the time of the increase of the army in 1866 he was appointed Lieutenant Colonel of the 10th Cavalry and served with that regiment until about two years since, when he was promoted Colonel of the Second Cavalry. He commanded at Fort Richardson from August 1866 to February 1868, and was beloved by everyone who knew him. His family has the sympathy of every one who was acquainted with them.