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When Alexander Warwick Davis was born on 17 December 1848, in Jackson, Ohio, United States, his father, Henry H Davis, was 34 and his mother, Hannah Ford Shaffer, was 27.
 

Civil War:​

Savage's Station Battle (see below) - wounded in battle and left to be captured by the Confederate army. June 29, 1862.

Muster 2 Date: 11 Apr 1864;
Muster 2 Place: Vermont;
Muster 2 Unit: 2925;
Muster 2 Company: E;
Muster 2 Regiment: 39th Infantry;
Muster 2 Regiment Type: Infantry;
Muster 2 Information: Commission;
Rank Change 2 Date: 11 Apr 1864;
Rank Change 2 Rank: First Lieutenant;
Rank Change 2 Information: As of Co. E 39th USCT Infantry;
Rank Change 3 Date: 02 Apr 1865;
Rank Change 3 Rank: Captain;
Muster Out 2 Date: 04 Dec 1865;
Muster Out 2 Information: Mustered Out

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The Battle of Savage's Station took place on June 29, 1862, in Henrico County, Virginia, as the fourth of the Seven Days Battles (Peninsula Campaign) of the American Civil War. The main body of the Union Army of the Potomac began a general withdrawal toward the James River. Confederate Brig. Gen. John B. Magruder pursued along the railroad and the Williamsburg Road and struck Maj. Gen. Edwin Vose Sumner's II Corps (the Union rearguard) with three brigades near Savage's Station, while Maj. Gen. Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson's divisions were stalled north of the Chickahominy River. Union forces continued to withdraw across White Oak Swamp, abandoning supplies and more than 2,500 wounded soldiers in a field hospital.

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The battle was a stalemate at the cost of about 1,500 casualties on both sides, plus 2,500 previously wounded Union soldiers who were left to be captured when their field hospital was evacuated. Jackson eventually crossed the river by about 2:30 a.m. on June 30, but it was too late to crush the Union Army, as Lee had hoped. Most of the Army of the Potomac crossed White Oak Swamp Creek unmolested by noon on June 30. Lee reprimanded Magruder in a dispatch: "I regret much that you have made so little progress today in the pursuit of the enemy. In order to reap the fruits of our victory that pursuit should be most vigorous.... We must lose no more time or he will escape us entirely." However, the fault for the lost opportunity must be shared equally with the poor staff work at Lee's own headquarters and a less-than-aggressive performance by Jackson. The Seven Days continued with the much larger Battle of Glendale and the Battle of White Oak Swamp on June 30.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Savage%27s_Station

 

 After the war, he started to move westward. He married Caroline McClary on 24 October 1872, in Eagle, Richland, Wisconsin, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 3 daughters. They moved further on and settled in South Dakota. He was employed as the Postmaster in Bushnell SD. He lived in Brookings, Dakota Territory, United States in 1880 and Aurora, Brookings, South Dakota, United States in 1910.

 

He died on 14 December 1926, in Monmouth, Polk, Oregon, where he lived with his daughter, at the age of 77, and was buried in Fountain Cemetery, Bushnell, Brookings, South Dakota, United States.