George Crawford Daniel

In 1860 he was a 20 year old medical student living with Dr. Henry J Long and his family at Danielsville in Madison County, GA. He attended a seeion of lectures in a medical school in Philadelphia, PA, and on 25 April 1861 he enlisted in Athens, GA. He mustered as a Private in Company K, 3rd Georgia Infantry on 4 May in Augusta, GA.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his thigh in action at Sharpsburg on 17 September 1862.

He was a patient in a hospitla in Richmond, VA by 30 September 1862 and on wounded furlough from 4 October to 8 January 1863. He was detailed as a Hospital Steward in July 1863 and on 6 November was assigned to Chimborazo Hospital in Richmond, VA.

He obtained an MD degree from the Medical College of Richmond in 1864 and was appointed Assistant Surgeon, CS Navy in May 1864 aboard the ironclad CSS Chicora in Charleston Harbor, and served in Semmes' Naval Brigade.

He practiced medicine in Danielsville from 1865 to 1873, when he was elected County Ordinary (lower court judge). He was reelected to at least 1885 and from 1898-1900 he was a State Senator. He'd retired in Danielsville by 1910.

His service from Henderson1 and his Compiled Service Records,2 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists, the US Census of 1860-1910, the Journal of the American Medical Association (January-June 1912), and a bio sketch in Memoirs of Georgia (1895). His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Louisa E. Watson (1844-1926) in 1865 and they had 7 children.

10/18/1839; Danielsville, GA

11/12/1911; Danielsville, GA; burial in Old Danielsville Presbyterian Cemetery, Danielsville, GA