Thomas Herbert Davis, Company B, 1st Infantry, was a 25-year-old school teacher when he enlisted April 21, 1861 at Richmond. He was appointed 1st sergeant on May 23, elected 2nd lieutenant on October 12, 1861, and made captain on April 27, 1862. He was wounded at Seven Pines on May 31, 1862 and was severely wounded and captured while leading his company during the attack of Pickett's division against Cemetery Ridge at Gettysburg on the afternoon of July 3, 1863. Arriving at Johnson's Island, Ohio on July 18 from Fort Delaware, he escaped on January 1, 1864. He rejoined his unit and in March 1864 received a new sword and belt along with a Colt navy pistol. He was captured at Sayler's Creek, Virginia on April 6, 1865, being returned to Johnson's Island, where he took the Oath of Allegiance on June 18, 1865, being described as 6' tall, with a fair complexion, dark hair and blue eyes. Moving to San Antonio, Texas after the war, he died from yellow fever (malaria) before 1891. (Confederate Casualties at Gettysburg, by Busey and Busey, 3:1444; Compiled Service Records of T. Herbert Davis)