Edward James Daniels

In 1860 he was a 20 year old farm worker at Goose Creek in Beaufort County, NC. He enlisted as a Private in Company I, 4th North Carolina Infantry on 25 June 1861 in Beaufort County.

He was captured at Boonesboro, MD on 15 September 1862 - the day following the regiment's fight at Fox's Gap on South Mountain (or at Frederick, MD on the 12th).

He was briefly in a US Army hospital in Frederick, MD then a prisoner at Fort Delaware by about 20 September, paroled and sent to Aiken's Landing, VA for exchange on 2 October, and declared exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was wounded at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863, was in the Pratt Hospital in Lynchburg, VA to at least July, and returned to duty about the end of September 1863. He was sick in a Richmond, VA hospital in June 1864 with no later military record.

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a farmer at Alfred's Store in Township #3 in Craven County, NC (which became part of Pamlico County in 1872). He was a farm laborer living in Oriental, NC in 1900 but was back in Township #3 in 1910, farming corn and cotton.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 via fold3, also as James Daniels, and the Roster.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Martha E. "Patsy" Leary (1836-1876) in March 1866 and they had 2 children. He married again, Elizabeth Scott (1849-) in September 1876, and they had 4 more. He married, third, Caroline Styron (1865-) in July 1909.

02/1840 in NC

05/1913; Mesic, NC; burial in Morris Family Cemetery, Mesic, NC