William Walker McDaniel

Son of a wealthy planter, from Texasville, AL, in 1860 he was a 21 year old student at Bowdon College living with his uncle George Ambrose McDaniel (1820-1899), his family, and one slave on their farm near Bowdon, GA. On 30 July 1861, a recent graduate, he enrolled there and mustered as First Lieutenant of Company B of the Infantry Battalion, Cobb's Legion. Another uncle, Charles Addison McDaniel (1830-1862) was then Captain of the Company. He was promoted to Captain in July (to date from 14 March) 1862 after his uncle Charles was appointed Colonel of the 41st Georgia Infantry.

He was wounded in the knee in action at Crampton's Gap on 14 September 1862.

He was furloughed home from a hospital in Richmond, VA into December 1862, then back with his company. He was wounded again, in the leg at Chancellorsville, VA on 3 May 1863. He was wounded yet again, by a gunshot to his left hip and thigh near New Market, VA in May 1864 - "unfit to ride or walk" - and was furloughed home. He was promoted to Major of the Battalion in December (to date from 12 May) 1864, but did not rejoin his unit, and served the rest of the war in Alabama as an enrolling officer. He was officially retired from the Legion due to disability from wounds on 24 February 1865.

By 1870 he was in Henry County, AL and was a farmer there to at least 1880.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3 and from Hugh W. Barrow in the roster appended to his book Private James R. Barrow and Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry (1996) [pdf]. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1880. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a photograph contributed to the FamilySearch database by user 1ByrdLady in 2014.

He married Frances Marion Horne (1843-1885) in November 1866 and they had 9 children.

06/11/1838; Henry County, GA

07/10/1892; Texasville, AL; burial in Clopton Cemetery, Ozark, AL