Daniel Washington Glassie

Giving his age as 22 he enlisted on 20 April (or 10 May) 1861 as a Sergeant in Company E, First Kentucky Infantry at Camp Clay near Cincinnati, OH. His company was detached as an independent artillery battery on 3 July 1861 and he was appointed (brevet/junior) 2nd Lieutenant on 31 October 1861.

He was with the battery in action at Antietam on 17 September 1862.

He was promoted to Captain of the battery on 13 March 1864 and mustered out with them at Louisville, KY on 20 July 1865.

In 1870 he was a prosperous lawyer in Nashville, TN but in 1871 he was in practice in Washington, DC. In 1883 he was "restored to practice as [patent] attorney before the Interior Department." He was still a lawyer in Washington at his death at age 62 in January 1905; his residence then listed as 916 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. His presence at Antietam from the battery's September 1862 return in Hunt's Papers;2 thanks to Jim Rosebrock for that reference. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1870 & 1880, the Indianapolis Journal of 5 October 1883, and notes from his grandson Henry H., Jr. in the Records of the Columbia Historical Society (1963/1965). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Minnie Haywood Nash (1847-1929) in May 1868 in Davidson County, TN and they had 3 children. Minnie began receiving a US pension as his widow in May 1908.

His son Henry (1870-1937) and grandson Henry, Jr. (1914-1987) were also Washington lawyers.

c. 1843; Frankfort, KY

01/13/1905; Washington, DC; burial in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, VA