Daniel Cronin

He mustered into service as Private, Company G, 107th Pennsylvania Infantry on 11 February 1862.

He was with his Company at Turner's Gap and was posted as sentry near midnight on 14 September. He came face-to-face with Lieutenant W.P. DuBose of the Holcombe Legion, who had been sent to see if the Federals were still there. Dubose pulled his pistol, which discharged. Startled, but probably not hurt, Cronin knocked Dubose to the ground and helped capture him.

He was wounded in action at Fredericksburg, VA on 13 December 1862. He mustered out with his Company on 11 February 1865.

He applied for a pension in 1882 and DuBose validated his story of the capture on South Mountain to the Pension Board. He met DuBose for the second time in Sewanee, TN about 1897.

Basic information from Bates1. His identity as the man who captured Lt. DuBose from Dubose's affidavit of 15 August 1882 in the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission's Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harrisburg, noted by Scott Hartwig in To Antietam Creek: The Maryland Campaign of September 1862 (2012). His 1897 meeting with DuBose from DuBose's Turning Points in My Life (1912).