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(c. 1838 - ?)
Home State: North Carolina
Branch of Service: Infantry
Before Sharpsburg
In 1860 he was a 22 year old farmer at Trenton in Jones County, NC. He mustered there as 3rd Corporal of Company G, 2nd North Carolina Infantry on 24 May 1861.
On the Campaign
He was wounded in action and captured at Fox's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862:
Missile passed through both orbits from side to side, destroying both eyeballs ... eyesight entirely lost.
The rest of the War
He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD on 22 October. He was sent to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore for exchange on 12 November, and was in a hospital in Petersburg, VA on 21 November. He was furloughed home on 29 November 1862. He had been promoted to 3rd Sergeant in his absence and remained on his Company's muster roll and was paid through at least April 1864.
After the War
By 1870 he was farming again at Trenton, near two other McDaniel families. In 1880 he was still there, unmarried, living with a woman named Polly A Tags (Teague?, c. 1840-) and her two young children.
References & notes
Birth
c. 1838 in NC
1 Manarin, Louis H., and Weymouth Tyree Jordan, Matthew M Brown, Michael W Coffey, North Carolina Troops, 1861-1865 : A Roster, 20 Volumes +, Raleigh: North Carolina State Department of Archives and History, 1966- [AotW citation 31360]
2 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 31361]
3 Barnes, Joseph K., and US Army, Office of the Surgeon General, The Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion, 6 books, Washington DC: US Government Printing Office, 1870-1883, Volume 2, Part 1, p. 328 [AotW citation 31362]