Daniel Harrison Cox

In 1860 he was a 20 year old living with his father, step-mother, and 8 siblings on their small farm at Foust's Mills in Randolph County, NC. He was conscripted in Raleigh, NC on 16 August 1862 and mustered as a Private in Company G of the 46th Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 12 October, transferred to GH#7 (in the Tannery) on 17 October, then sent on to Fort McHenry in Baltimore. On 18 (or 20) October he was paroled and sent to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange. He was admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on 23 October and furloughed on 20 December 1862.

He was disabled by his Sharpsburg wound and had not returned to his company by December 1864. He was admitted to a Richmond, VA hospital on 12 January 1865 with no later military record.

In 1870 he was back farming on his father's place at Foust's Mill, NC but by 1900 he was a farmer at Sanford in Moore County, NC.

His service from Moore1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Wound and hospital details from the Patient List.3 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1870, & 1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his picture, from an excellent photograph contributed by user Tina.

He married Ruina Ann Seawell (1840-1886) in January 1872. He married again, Loula Frances Matthews (1866-1929) in December 1888 and they had 4 children, two of whom survived him.

His half-cousin (!) William H H Whitney was also wounded and captured at Sharpsburg. Daniel's half-sister Ruth Ann was Whitney's step-mother. William and Daniel were next-door neighbors before the war. Family lore says they lay wounded on opposite sides of a haystack on the battlefield, not knowing the other was there.

12/15/1839; Randolph County, NC

04/01/1905; Sanford, NC; burial in Buffalo Cemetery, Sanford, NC