Daniel Yates Howell

In 1860 he was an 18 year old living with prosperous blacksmith Tom Reed and wife at Utica in Hinds County, MS. He enlisted on 25 April 1861 at Crystal Springs, MS and mustered as a Private in Company C, 16th Mississippi Infantry on 26 May 1861 in Corinth, MS. He was promoted to 3rd Corporal on 17 June 1861 but was reduced again to Private on 30 April 1862.

He was wounded in the head in action at Sharpsburg, MD on 17 September 1862.

He was with his Company by the end of October 1862 and on through the end of 1864. He was listed as a deserter on 27 January 1865 at Petersburg, VA - he surrendered to US forces there, along with Pvt. Robert Shirley and Sgt. William Slay. They were prisoners at Knoxville, TN by 14 March, took an oath of allegiance there, and were sent to Chattanooga then Louisville, KY, where all three were released on 28 March 1865, pledged to "remain north of the Ohio River during the War."

By 1870 and to at least 1880 he was a merchant or store clerk at Edwards in Hinds County. In 1900 he was a cotton buyer there. By 1910 and to at lest 1920 he was retired and living with his daughter Lucille and her family in Jackson, MS.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 online from fold3. His Sharpsburg wound from a casualty list in the New Orleans Times-Picayune of 29 October 1862. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1920.

He married Caroline "Carrie" Davis (1850-) in November 1868 and they had 8 children.

07/1842; Hinds County, MS