Daniel F. C. Brooks

In 1860 he was a 50 year old painter (with oldest son Henry) at Prairie Bluff in Wilcox County, Al. Giving his age as 44, he enlisted in Camden, AL on 6 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company A, 13th Alabama Infantry.

He was in action at Turner's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September and wounded by a gunshot to his left arm at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862, and captured there.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital in Chester, PA on 2 October, sent to Fort Delaware on 24 October, then on to Fortress Monroe, VA for exchange on 15 December 1862. He was admitted to the Episcopal Church Hospital in Williamsburg, VA on 20 December, transferred to a hospital in Petersburg on 9 February, and sent home on wounded furlough for 60 days on 20 February 1863. He was discharged on 19 October 1863 for disability from wounds.

By 1870 he was a barkeeper at Camden, AL.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3, and the Archives.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave, source also of his pisture from a photograph of unknown provenance contributed by Mike Ford.

He married Sarah Frances Evans (1814-1882) and they had 3 children. His son Henry, also in Company A, died of typhoid fever at Richmond, VA on 15 May 1862, then 22 years old.

c. 1810 in GA

07/10/1871; burial in Camden Cemetery, Camden, AL