[no picture yet]

Confederate (CSV)

Private

Daniel C. Nelson

(c. 1844 - 1863)

Home State: Alabama

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 44th Alabama Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

An unmarried 18 year old farmer in Bibb County, AL, he enlisted at Scottsville as a Private in Company B, 44th Alabama Infantry on 15 March 1862.

On the Campaign

He was wounded in the head (thigh?) in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862 and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was admitted to US Army General Hospital #4 in Frederick, MD on 12 October and sent on to Ft. McHenry in Baltimore on the 17th. He as transferred to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 20 October, admitted to Chimborazo Hospital #4 in Richmond, VA on the 26th, furloughed home on 17 November, in a hospital in Selma, AL in January 1863, and returned to duty by May. He was mortally wounded at Chickamauga, GA on 20 September 1863 and died on 3 October.

His father James M. Nelson filed for his final pay in August 1864.

References & notes

His service from the State of Alabama1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. He's also on a Sharpsburg casualty list in the Richmond (VA) Enquirer of 17 October 1862.

Birth

c. 1844 in AL

Death

10/03/1863; in GA

Notes

1 State of Alabama, Dept. of Archives & History, Alabama Civil War Service Database, Published 2004, first accessed 01 January 2010, <https://archives.alabama.gov/research/CivilWarService.aspx> [AotW citation 31608]

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 31615]

« Search for another Person