Daniel C. Cordell

He enlisted in Henderson County on 15 July 1861 and mustered the same day as a Private in Company H of the 25th North Carolina Infantry. He was ill with typhoid fever in hospitals in Richmond and Lynchburg, VA in July and August 1862.

He was sent to a hospital in Frederick, MD, sick, by 12 September 1862, 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 in a hospital in Richmond by 15 October, formally exchanged on 10 November, and returned to his company on 9 December 1862. He served with them to at least December 1863, the latest record with the 25th Infantry.

He enlisted again, in Knoxville, TN on 1 January 1865 and mustered there on 11 January (or 16 February) as a Private in Company G, 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry, a Union unit. He mustered out with them on 8 August 1865 in Knoxville.

By 1870 he was a farmer at Swannanoa near Asheville, NC. In 1880 he was farming in Madison County, NC but by 1900 was again farming at Swannanoa. In 1910 he was retired and living with his youngest son Leander there.

His service from his Compiled Military Service Records,1 via fold3. He's also on the Confederates In Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Orra Minerva Creasman (1831-1905) and they had 5 children between 1866 and 1875.

His brothers Adolphus (1846-1927) and Elisha (1835-1906) also enlisted in the 25th North Carolina Infantry; Elisha deserted in August 1862, but Adolphus may have been in Maryland with Daniel in September 1862. Brothers James H (1843-1915) and Adolphus also enlisted with him in the 3rd North Carolina Mounted Infantry (US) in 1865.

05/29/1842; Swannanoa, NC

05/30/1919; Buncombe County, NC; burial in Bethel United Methodist Church Cemetery, Asheville, NC