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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Daniel Holyfield

(c. 1844 - ?)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 25th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 2 siblings on their farm at Crab Tree in Haywood County, NC. He enlisted in Waynesville, NC on 31 May 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company C of the 25th North Carolina Infantry the same day (or 31 June).

On the Campaign

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, left behind, and captured there.

The rest of the War

He was in US Army General Hospital #1 in Frederick, MD to 19 September and afterward was a prisoner at Fort Delaware to 2 October, then sent to Aikens' Landing, VA for exchange. He was in a Richmond, VA hospital by 9 October, formally exchanged on 10 November 1862, and furloughed home on that date. He was back with his company by February 1863 and was with them to at least February 1865, the last record in his military file.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from the US Census of 1860.

Birth

c. 1844; Haywood County, NC

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Former Confederate Soldiers who Served in the 1st Through 6th U.S. Volunteer Infantry Regiments, 1864-1866, Record Group No. 94 (Adjutant General's Office, 1780's-1917), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34330]

2 National Museum of Civil War Medicine, Confederates In Frederick List , Published 2026, first accessed 28 March 2026, <https://www.civilwarmed.org/explore/primary-sources/databases/confederates-in-frederick-list/>, Source page: #264 [AotW citation 34331]

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