J. B. Davis
History of Kershaw's Brigade by G. Augustus Dickert

Pgs 334-335 COLONEL J.   B. DAVIS. Colonel J. B. Davis was born in Fairfield County, of Scotch Irish decent, about the year 1835. He received his early education in the schools of the country, at Mount Zion Academy, at Winnsboro. in same county. Afterwards he was admitted to the United States Military School, at West Point,but alter remaining for two years, resigned and commenced the study of medicine. He graduated some years before the war, and entered upon the practice of his profession in the western part of the county. He was elected Captain of the first company raised in Fairfield, and served in Gregg's first six months' volunteers in Charleston. After the fall of Sumter, his company, with several others, disbanded. Returning home, he organized a company for the Confederate service, was elected Captain, and joined the Fifteenth Regiment, then forming in Columbia under Colonel DeSaussure. He was in all the battles of the Maryland campaign, in the brigade under General Drayton, and in all the great battles with Kershaw's Brigade. In the winter of 1863 he was made Colonel of the Fifteenth, and served with his regiment until the surrender. On several occasions he was in command of the brigade, as senior Colonel present. He was in command at Cold Harbor after the death of Colonel Keitt. Colonel Davis was one among the best tacticians in the command; had a soldierly appearance—tall, well-developed, a commanding voice, and an all round good officer. He returned home after the war and began the practice of medicine, and continues it to the present.

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