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Daniel
SEE: W. C. Alien, History of Halifax County (1918);
George T. Blackburn, II. and others. The Di and Phi Portrait Index (1980); Walter Gark, History of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (1919); Margaret M. Hofmann, Genealogical Abstracts of Wills 1758 through 2824, Halifax County, North Carolina (1970); John H. Wheeler, Histori cal Sketches of North Carolina (1851).	J
JOSEPH K. L. RECKfORD
Daniel, Junius (27 June 1828-15 May 1864), Confederate general, was bom in Halifax, the son of John Reeves Jones Daniel (1802-68), attorney general of Nortjn Carolina and member of the United States Congress,7 and his wife, Martha Stith. He was educated at an elementary school in Halifax and at the J. M. Lovejoy Academy in Raleigh before receiving an appointment by President John Knox PoLk to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in 1846 Upon graduation in 1851, Daniel was sent to Newport, Ky., as assistant quartermaster; in the following year, he was stationed at Fort Albuquerque.
N'. Mex., where he remained for five years. In 1857 he resigned his commission to begin a career as a planter in Louisiana, joining his father who had moved there following his last term in Congress in 1851.
In October 1860 Daniel married Ellen Long, daughter of Colonel John J. Long of Northampton County, N.C. They had no children.
Though offered a commission by the state of Louisiana after Lincoln's call for txoops in Apnl 1860, Daniel returned to Halifax and offered his services to his native state. He was chosen colonel of the Fourth (later Fourteenth) Regiment and remained as the commanding officer until the period of enlistment expired. He was then offered command of the Forty-third and Forty-fifth regiments and the Second North Carolina Cavalry. He accepted the command of the Forty-fifth Regiment.
Daniel led four regiments from Raleigh to Goldsboro and organized them into a brigade; afterward, he organized two other brigades. In June 1862 he was ordered to Petersburg, Va., Where his bngade joined General Robert E. Lee s Army of Northern Virginia before the Seven Days Battle, though it took no active part in this battle
He was commissioned brigadier general on 1 Sept. 1862, making him one of five men from Halifax County to serve as brigadier generals in the Confederate Army. He spent the fall of 1862 with his brigade at Drury's Bluff and subsequently served in North Carolina. After the Battle of Chancellors ville, he was transferred to General Robert E. Rodes's division of the Second Corps in Lee's army where he served with distinction in the Pennsylvania Campaign. His brigade was entrusted with the bearing of the "Corps Hag." In the Battle of Gettysburg, Daniel's brigade suffered the greatest losses of any brigade in the corps on the first day of the battle.
Whiie leading his brigade at the ''Horseshoe Bend" near Spottsvlvarua Court House, Va., on 12 May 1864, General Daniel was struck in the abdomen by a minie ball ana died the next day. His body was taken to Halifax apd buried in the old colonial cemetery, which is now a part of the Historic Site .Area.
SEE: W. C. Allen, History of Halifax County (1918); Ezra J. Warner. Generals In Gray (1959).
RALPH HARDEN RJVES
Daniel, Robert id. May 1718), a prominent figure in the politics of both North Carolina and South Carolina, arrived in South Carolina from Barbados about April
1677 and took up warrants on 1,500 acres of land. He returned to Barbados briefly but had settled in Oyster Point, S.C. by 1679. Early in his career he became associated with the antiproprietary Goose Creek faction and was a leading participant in political agitation during Philip Ludwell?s governorship in 1692. When the Lords Proprietors issued a general pardon to the agitators the following year, Daniel was one of two men excluded from its provisions. However, his social prestige in the colony remained high (he had been named a landgrave in 1691), and in December 1697 while visiting in England he was made deputy to the new Ear! Craven. While revising the Fundamental Constitutions in 1698, the Proprietors consulted frequently witi Daniel; later that year he returned to South Carolina with the completed revisions.
As a Proprietor's deputy Daniel was entitled to membership on South Carolina's council, in which he subsequently took an active role. Like so many of his fellow Barbadians in the colony, Daniel was a loyal supporter of the Church of England, and he led the successful opposition to appointment of a dissenter as president of the council in 1700. Two years later he participated in an expedition to Florida to fight the Spaniards and Indians and earned a solid reputation for bravery. When the high Anglican, Sir Nathaniel Johnson, became governor of Carolina in March 1703, he turned to Daniel for frequent counsel. In July Johnson sent the landgrave to North Carolina as deputy governor. Shortly after arriving in the Albemarle region, Daniel set about gathering prominent Anglicans as councillors and provincial officers. Early in 1704 the document arrived with which the deputy governor would purge the North Carolina assembly of its large number of dissenters. From England the Privy Council had ordered that all persons in places of public trust must pledge an oath of allegiance to the recent Queen Anne. Daniel required that all members of the government swear to the oath; he would not allow affirmations as had been done in the past Because Quakers were prohibited from swearing by their religious creed, they were barred from the assembly that met late in 1704. This purged body then passed a vestry act requiring public support for the erection of Anglican churches, as well as a measure barring from the government anyone who had not sworn to the oath of allegiance.
North Carolina dissenters began seeking ways to get rid of Daniel and, with their counterparts in South Carolina and their friends in England, succeeded in pressuring Governor Johnson to remove Daniel from office early in 1705. During the following four years Daniel seems to have frequently traveled back and forth between North Carolina and South Carolina. He owned considerable property in Bath County at the time but also served in the South Carolina lower house of assembly from 1706 to 1709. In 1708 he participated briefly in the North Carolina upper house during the contest between Thomas Cary and William Glover for the presidency of that body. For reasons that are undear, Daniel never allied with either man and withdrew to Bath where he apparently married a woman named Martha Wainwright. His first wife, Dorothy, had died earlier in South Carolina.
In 1709 Daniel deeded most of his North Carolina holdings to Martna to help her in rearing their son, John, and returned to South Carolina as his permanent residence. He lived in Charleston in 1710 and moved to the Waccamaw area the next year. During the period 1713-15 he again served in the South Carolina assembly. When in August 1712 that body was seeking a commander for its forces preparing to battle the Tuscarora