Jasper G. Daniel

Son of a prosperous planter, in 1860 he was a 23 year old farmer living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 32 slaves on their plantation at Hopeful in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 28 March 1862 in Augusta, GA and mustered as a Private in Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was wounded in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862, left behind as a nurse, and captured.

He was admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp B in Frederick, MD on 2 January 1863 and sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 9 February. He was exchanged at Fortress Monroe, VA on 19 June 1863 and in a hospital in Petersburg, VA to 29 June. He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865 and a prisoner at Newport News, VA to 25 June, when he took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was released.

In 1870 he was farming with his brothers Bryan and Theodore and their families on their widowed mother Harriett's place in Burke County, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Theodore was also in Company E.

05/15/1837; Richmond County, GA

1871; burial in Hopeful Baptist Church Cemetery, Dyes Crossroad, GA