![]() He became even more well known in the Confederate government when he joined Maury in mining the James River which, coupled with the large guns on Drewry's Bluff, barred the Union Navy's advance toward Richmond in the summer of 1862 and throughout the war. Jones, he served as a gunnery officer aboard the ironclad CSS Virginia during the historic battle of Hampton Roads. When the Civil War broke out, Davidson resigned his commission and his post in Annapolis and became a lieutenant in the Confederate Navy. ![]() Hunter Davidson understood the Union Navy, having been in Federal service since 1841 as a teen-aged midshipman, a graduate of its Naval Academy and an instructor there, an officer who fought in the War with Mexico and served on the Africa Station, and along the way befriended other talented and daring officers like Robert Minor, and became a protege of Matthew Fontaine Maury, the longtime superintendent of the National Observatory. ![]()
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