John H. Daniel

A 34 year old farmer in Fairfax County, VA, he enlisted at Fairfax Court House as Private, Company H, First Virginia Infantry on 29 August 1861. On 26 April 1862 he was appointed Quartermaster Sergeant but he was "broken" - reduced to Private again - by an order of General Kemper on 6 July, and returned to his Company.

At Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862

While marching in column of fours, a spent six pound shot struck J. H. Daniel of Company "H" on the rump and knocked him about ten feet without seriously injuring him.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his right foot and captured at Gettysburg, PA on 3 July 1863. He was in the US 1st Division/First Corps field hospital at Gettysburg, sent to the Letterman General Hospital nearby on 27 July, then transferred to the US Army's West's Buildings General Hospital in Baltimore on 1 September. He was paroled there on 25 September and sent to City Point, VA for exchange. He was absent recovering from wounds into January 1864, but was back on duty in February.

He was captured at Petersburg, VA on 2 April 1865 and held at Point Lookout, MD until released on 12 June after taking an oath of allegiance. Later that month he was among a group of "refugees and rebel deserters" in Washington, DC and was provided transportation to Baltimore, MD.

His service from his Compiled Service Records (CSRs), online from fold3, and from the War History,1 source of the quote above. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860.

He married Catherine E Rogers (b. 1830) in January 1853 and they had 3 sons.

c. 1827