Henry Eugene Davies

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For the British journalist and publisher, see Henry Davies (journalist). For the British lifeboatman, see Henry Thomas Davies.

Henry Eugene Davies, Jr. (1836-94) was an American soldier and lawyer, born in New York. He was educated at Harvard, Williams, and Columbia, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. At the outbreak of the Civil War he entered the United States Volunteers as captain, and became brigadier general in September, 1863. He served with distinction in the Cavalry Corps, Army of the Potomac, became one of Sheridan's most trusted lieutenants, and by 1865 had risen to the rank of major general of volunteers. He resigned in 1866 and afterward became a prominent New York lawyer and held several public offices. He was the author of General Sheridan (1895), in the "Great Commander Series."