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Confederate (CSV)

Private

John Seborn Daniell

"Jack"

(1841 - 1906)

Home State: Texas

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 4th Texas Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

He was a 19 year old student living with his parents in Belmont, Gonzales County, TX in 1860. He enlisted at age 20 at Camp Clark in Guadalupe County as a Private in Company D, 4th Texas Infantry on 4 July 1861.

On the Campaign

He was a litter bearer in action with his Company at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

The rest of the War

He was with his Company for the rest of the war and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

After the War

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he farmed his own place in Caldwell County, TX.

References & notes

Service information from Davis,1 as J.S. Daniall, and his Compiled Service Records,2 via fold3, as John S. Daniel or Daniels. Polley 3 has him as Jack Daniel. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census for 1860, 1880, and 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Mary Ann Hilliard (1847-1903) in December 1866 in Lowndes County, MS and they had 11 children between 1868 and 1890, all in Williamson County, TX.

Birth

03/09/1841; Gonzales County, TX

Death

03/29/1906; Williamson County, TX; burial in Fore Cemetery, Williamson County, TX

Notes

1 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A., The Campaign from Texas to Maryland, Houston: Telegraph Book and Job Establishment, 1863, pp. 154-155 [AotW citation 1724]

2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 26824]

3 Polley, Joseph Benjamin, Hood's Texas Brigade, New York: The Neale Publishing Company, 1910, pg. 321 [AotW citation 26825]

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