What United States Army post, based in  the Nome Census Area of Alaska, is named for an officer who served in the American Civil War?
Fort Davis, Alaska Fort Davis was a United States Army post established in the Nome Census Area of Alaska in 1900. It was named for General Jefferson C. Davis, the military commander of Alaska from 1868 to 1870.
John E. Phelps John Elisha Phelps (April 6, 1839 - September 17, 1921) was a Union officer during the American Civil War who was promoted to brevet brigadier general of volunteers on March 13, 1865. The former Springfield, Missouri-born grocer and cattle trader started his military career as a secret agent for Nathaniel Lyon in 1861. He was wounded in the leg at the Battle of Pea Ridge. In 1862, he became an aide-de-camp on the staff of Brigadier General Eugene Asa Carr. While recovering from malaria, he organized the 2nd Arkansas Cavalry and was made its colonel on March 18, 1864. After the war he became a farmer and a miner and later moved to Tacoma, Washington and eventually died in Pasadena, California.