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Confederate (CSV)

Private

Daniel H. Whitener

(c. 1844 - 1864)

Home State: North Carolina

Branch of Service: Infantry

Unit: 35th North Carolina Infantry

Before Sharpsburg

In 1860 he was a 16 year old living with his parents and 5 younger siblings on their small farm near Jacob's Fork in Catawba County, NC. He enlisted in Burke County, NC on 15 October 1861 and mustered near Raleigh on 29 October as a Private in Company K, 35th North Carolina Infantry.

On the Campaign

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

The rest of the War

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 admitted to a hospital in Richmond, VA about 9 October then transferred to the parole camp there. He was home on furlough from 20 October to 15 November and had been formally exchanged to return to duty on 10 November 1862.

He was killed in action at Plymouth, NC on 20 April 1864.

References & notes

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. He's also on the Confederates in Frederick List.2 Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860. His memorial is on Findagrave.

Birth

c. 1844; Catawba County, NC

Death

04/20/1864; Plymouth, NC

Notes

1 US War Department, Compiled Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, Record Group No. 109 (War Department Collection of Confederate Records), Washington DC: US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), 1903-1927 [AotW citation 34584]

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: #41 [AotW citation 34585]

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