Name: Daniel Whitesell Harris
Birth Place: Va.
Date of Birth: 8/31/1840
Physical Description:
Prewar Life:
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Date of Enlistment: 8/1/1861
Place of Enlistment: Staunton
Age at Enlistment:
Occupation at Enlistment:Farmer
Conscript or Substitute:
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Rank: Pvt.
Company: G
Transfer Company:
Regiment: 58th Va. Inf.
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Promotions:
Transfers and Other Service:Detailed conscript duty, Lexington through 04-12-1864
Muster Sheet: Pres. until WIA, Gaines' Mill, left thigh bone shattered, 06-27-1862; ab. wounded through 08-01-1863; pres. 12-31-1864 to 02-28-1865
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Missing In Action:
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Died of Disease:
Killed in Action:
Wounded in Action: Gaines' Mill, left thigh bone shattered - 6/27/1862
Hospital: Pres. until ab. sick in Monterey hospital, 11-00-1861 to 04-00-1862
Died of Wounds:
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Personal Life: Brother of Ovid L. Abney
Family Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Dwelling Number from 1860 census: (Click on number to see the 1860 census record)
Postwar Life: Farmhand, age 38, South River Dist. Rockbridge Co. 1870 census; Receiving pension Van Lear, Augusta Co., 1889
obituary states he was a sharpshooter
Death Place: Stuart's Draft
Date of Death: 4/15/1894
Cause of Death:
Burial Place: Calvary Methodist Church Cem.
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