Daniel Harris Turner

He was an unmarried farmer from Huntsville, AL when he enlisted as Private on 26 April 1861 in Company I, 4th Alabama Infantry. He was in action from First to Second Manassas, VA, and was appointed First Sergeant, date not given.

He was with his Company on South Mountain and at Sharpsburg.

He was elected 2nd Lieutenant in October 1862. He was in action from Fredericksburg, VA to Gettysburg, PA where he was wounded in the right arm in action on 2 July 1863. He was furloughed, and found by Medical Examining Board to be unfit for further field service 6 December 1864. He was returning to his unit when he was paroled in Greensboro, NC on 9 April 1865 as Captain of his Company.

He was living in Huntsville in 1907.

Basic information from State of Alabama1. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of a post-War photo from the Confederate Veteran, Volume 30, Number 1 (January 1922) which has a brief obituary.

01/12/1841; Huntsville, AL

07/21/1921; near Huntsville, AL; burial in Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville, AL