Younger brother of Robert Beale Davis and Wilbur Fisk Davis, John W. C. Davis joined the "Potomac Rifles," Company K of the 40th VA Infantry, on May 25, 1861 with his older half-brother Robert. He was wounded on June 27, 1862 at the Battle of Gaines' Mill (VA), part of the Seven Days' Battles. He returned to duty in October, 1862 and then was discharged for disability and assigned to the Engineer Corps, serving as a topographical engineer.
After the war, he was an instructor in mathematics at the University of Virignia in 1870, was involved in the founding of Virginia Tech, served in the state Senate, and by 1880 is listed in the census as a farmer at Hickory Hill, a plantation in Westmoreland County, VA he and his surviving brother, Wilbur Fisk Davis, inherited in Westmoreland County, VA after the war, where he died June 19, 1913. Davis is buried with other family members in the graveyard at the Hickory Hill plantation in Westmoreland County.
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