Charles Wood McDaniel

Son of a prosperous shoemaker, in 1860 he was a 24 year old merchant living with his parents, sister, and 2 grandmothers at Canonsburg in Washington County, PA. He enlisted there on 27 April 1861 and mustered in Harrisburg as a Private in Company D, 10th Pennsylvania Reserves on 19 June. He was appointed First Lieutenant 2 days later and promoted to Captain of the Company a week after that - on 29 June 1861.

He (re-)joined the regiment and assumed command in the afternoon of 17 September 1862 at Antietam, then senior officer present, in relief of Captain Smith of Company G.

He mustered out at Pittsburgh, PA on 11 June 1864. He was honored by Brevet to Major of Volunteers to date from 13 March 1865.

By 1870 he was a dry goods store manager back in Canonsburg, PA, but in 1880 was a store clerk in Terre Haute, IN. By 1900 he was a wholesale dry goods salesman in Indianapolis in Marion County, IN. He was a manager in wholesale notions there in 1910, by then about 73 years old.

His service from Bates1 and the Card File.2 His command role at Antietam from Captain Smith's Report. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1850-1910, and the General Alumni Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College 1802-1945 (1945). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Hannah Tabitha Van Meter (1841-) in December 1861 in Fayette, KY.

He joined the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) in 1884 [application].

03/23/1837; Canonsburg, PA

06/19/1918; Indianapolis, IN; burial in Crown Hill Cemetery, Indianapolis, IN