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318 Chronicles of the Cape Fear River

was roughly handled; but later it became a part of the van, and
at the end, Corporal Davis and a small squad escaped without
surrendering. In civil life, Mr. Davis wore well the mantle
of his distinguished father.

After the war he came to the bar and was associated with his
father, and, like him, became recognized as eminent in his pro-
fession and particularly distinguished for his learning in corpo-
ration law and for his admirable management of the affairs of
the corporations entrusted to his care.

In 1853, Mr. George Davis became counsel for the Wilming-
ton and Manchester Railroad and continued as such after that
property was acquired by the Wilmington and Weldon Railroad.
Later, he was general counsel of the Atlantic Coast Line, his
son, Junius Davis, being associated with him, and when he died
the latter’s professional connection with the company continued.
In time Junius Davis retired from active practice and his son,
Thomas W. Davis, a lawyer of recognized ability, who had been
associated with him, assumed the connection with the company
from which his father resigned. Thus, for more than sixty
years, have Mr. George Davis, his son, and his grandson retained
the position as counsel for this property, a record, as far as
known, without a parallel in the United States.

Besides his admirable work as a lawyer, following further in
the footsteps of his illustrious father, Junius Davis made con-
tributions to historical literature and won a high reputation for
research into local history and as an entertaining and versatile
writer. In particular must be mentioned his masterful address
on Locke’s Fundamental Constitutions and his exhaustive and
conclusive article on John Paul Jones, which has been accepted
as explaining John Paul’s reason for assuming the name of
Jones. On its publication in the South Atlantic Quarterly, Col.
A. M. Waddell, Bishop Robert Strange, Prof. J. G. deRoulhac
Hamilton, Mr. James Sprunt, and others united in the follow-
ing request :

“The undersigned, your fellow-citizens, having read with
great interest and satisfaction your admirable contribution to
North Carolina history, published in the South Atlantic Quar-
terly, and desiring that this unique elucidation of the mystery
of Chevalier Jones’s adopted name be published in pamphlet
form, in order that it may be placed in public libraries and in
private collections for future guidance, most cordially felicitate
you upon its production and request your permission for its
more extended circulation.”

The War Between the States 319

In this article Mr. Davis shows that John Paul, when in need
of friends, found them in Allen and Willie Jones, and that he
assumed the name of Jones because of his association with them.
The Navy Department, in giving chronological data of the life
of John Paul Jones, refers to this fact and to Mr. Davis’ article,
and it may be considered that Mr. Davis has set at rest all
doubts on the subject.1_ He was a lovable man. ‘There was a
dignity and charm about Junius Davis by which he came natur-
ally, and he had an old-fashioned felicity of expression that de-
lighted his friends. He loved their companionship and that of
his books, of which he possessed a wonderful store, for his was
indeed a rich and well-stored mind, described by his illustrious
father, and in the recent years of his retirement from the
greater activities of life, it created its own beauty, wealth,
power, and happiness. He had wisdom and insight, and what-
ever subject he touched he illumined. He thought deeply upon
matters pertaining to his legal profession, upon literature and
politics, and upon the current affairs of life, and when he spoke
we felt that he had received a vision of the truth, for truth was
ever his guiding star.

Another old-time Cape Fear gentleman and soldier of the
South has crossed over the river and rests under the shade of

the trees.

“The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.”

Horatio Davis, a half-brother of Mr. George Davis, served in
the Confederate Army and later became a judge in Virginia,
and finally moved to Florida. He was a brave and fearless
soldier.

Armand L. DeRosset was elected captain of Company B at
the formation of the Sixth Battalion, called the Armory Guards,
which was stationed at the Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory
during the War between the States.

Moses John DeRosset was on duty as surgeon in the hospitals
at Richmond in 1861, and became surgeon of the Fifty-sixth
Regiment on its organization in the summer of 1862. Dr.
DeRosset stood high in his profession, having taken a course in

Europe and being besides an accomplished French and German .

scholar.

1New evidence, more recently discovered, however, again unsettles
the question. “

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