Nahum Daniels

He went from New York to Wisconsin with his family in 1844. By 1860 he was a 25 year old surveyor living with his parents and siblings on a farm at Grafton, Ozaukee County, WI. He enrolled as First Lieutenant of Company E, 3rd Wisconsin Infantry on 22 April 1861. He was detailed to the Signal Corps in March 1861. In March 1862 he was assigned to the 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac.

By 4 September 1862 he was at Great Falls on the Potomac River above Washington, DC and on 18 September was ordered to the station on Maryland Heights near Harpers Ferry.

He was promoted to Captain of Company I on 1 November 1862. He was on the Gettysburg Campaign of July 1863, then assigned to General Burnside in the Department of the Ohio in August. He was on the Atlanta Campaign of 1864. He returned to his Company in April 1865 and mustered out with his regiment at Madison, WI on 18 July 1865.

By 1870 he was a dry goods agent at Williams Township, Dodge County, WI. By 1896 he was in the Soldiers' Home in Leavenworth, KS.

His basic service from the Roster1 with details from Brown,2 source also of his picture. Maryland Campaign events from Captain B.F. Fisher's Report. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 and 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

06/25/1825; Hammond, NY

05/03/1907; burial in Leavenworth National Cemetery, Leavenworth, KS