Theodore Floyd Daniel

Son of a prosperous planter, in 1860 he was a 20 year old overseer living with his parents, 4 siblings, and 32 slaves on their plantation at Hopeful in Burke County, GA. He enlisted on 1 August 1861 in Waynesboro, GA and mustered on 5 August as 4th Sergeant of Company E, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was captured in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862.

He was held at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a hospital in Richmond, VA by 10 October 1862 and formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was appointed Junior 2nd Lieutenant on 14 May 1863 and promoted to (Senior) 2nd Lieutenant on 16 August 1864 (to date from 5 July 1863). He was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865, briefly in the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, DC, then sent to Johnson's Island near Sandusky, OH. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States there on 17 June and was released.

In 1870 he was farming with his brothers Bryan and Jasper on their widowed mother Harriett's place in Burke County, GA. By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was farming his own place in Burke County. In 1910 he was running a boarding house at Keysville, GA.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

His brother Jasper was also in Company E.

05/24/1840; Richmond County, GA

02/14/1920; Keysville, GA; burial in Hopeful Baptist Church Cemetery, Dyes Crossroad, GA