Another Davis

George Davis; no relation to Jefferson Davis, was appointed Confederate Attorney General January 2^nd 1864.

George Davis was born March 1^st 1820 at Porter’s Neck, near Wilmington, North Carolina.  He was the valedictorian of the class of 1838 of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.  Davis became a lawyer in 1840, and in 1848 the general counsel of the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.

As the country moved toward Civil War, Davis served as a delegate at the Washington Peace Conference from North Carolina in 1861.  He then served on the Provisional Confederate Congress and the Confederate Senate from 1861 through 1864.  Confederate President Jefferson C Davis appointed Davis Attorney General January 2^nd 1864 a position he held until the last days of the Confederacy on April 24^th 1865.

Davis was captured by a Union force October 18^th 1865 in Key West, Florida and served several months at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn, New York before being pardoned on January 1^st 1866.  He returned to his law practice in Wilmington, North Carolina.  Davis was offered, but turned down a seat on the North Carolina Supreme Court.  He died February 23^rd 1896.