Daniel Campbell

Son of Scottish parents, in 1860 he was a 31 year old farmer with 19 slaves near Pee Dee in the Marion District, SC. He enlisted at Lightwood Knott, SC on 2 May 1861 and mustered as 3rd Sergeant of Company I, First South Carolina Infantry. He was wounded at 2nd Manassas on 29 or 30 August 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD on 12 September, left behind, and captured there.

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 18 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was furloughed home from a Richmond, VA hospital on 26 October for 30 days and was formally exchanged on 10 November 1862. He was reduced to Private and sent to South Carolina to collect absent soldiers on 30 May 1863. He was with his company to 15 December 1864 when he was sent to Jackson Hospital in Richmond, sick with iritis (inflammation of the iris). He returned to duty on 9 February 1865 and was surrendered and paroled at Appomattox Court House, VA on 9 April 1865.

By 1870 and to at least 1900 he was back farming on the Pee Dee in Marion (later part of Dillon) County, SC.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1900. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Eliza Ann Carmichael (1831-1920) in February 1852 and they had 13 children.

03/09/1829; Marion District, SC

05/21/1903; burial in Locke-McDuffie Cemetery, Dillon County, SC