Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1885-12-08

mo, elapd; Judge Boiling, OF wythe; VIII
liam Terry, OF Wythe county.
The Barbour headquarters we're at
Room No. ll2, Exchange Hotel, and
were in charge of General w. II.
Payne, Major Robert r. Mason, and j.
s. b. Thompson.
Among the ardent, working friends
here Of Major Daniel were the follow
ing:
| Gen. II. II. Hurt. Danville; l.. NJ. kean,
| Lypehburg; General j. Z. Hill, Albenisrie /;
ley, Nelson; John ID. Holt, Lyncnburs; J.
n. Merchant, Fredericksburg; sam. J.
Griffin, Liberty; General James A.
walker, wytheyyillei r. i,a,,s. Hn,,er.
RGsnok% Eils f. Farrisa 4 ss.ris1 o6ariasiesSllis %
| Thomas g. Martin. scottsviile; Colonel X
| Q. Marshall, Norfolk; Captain Mlcajah
Woods, Charlottesville; X. ID, Yancey.
| vid Pierce. wythe; Meade White. Angusts; I;
| Wingneld Griffin. Roanoke; John Hndgins.
| Caroline: William A. Anderson, Lexlng-
| ton; Samuel j. Graham, Lexington; Col
| oDel J. II. Robbins, Gloucester; John III.
| Lewis. Lynchburg.
A sketch or the Nominee.
John Warwick Daniel was born in
Lynchburg September S, 1S42. Two
years ef schooling in the college at
Lynchburg and course Of study with
DR.. Gessner Harrison at Bellevue, Nell
son county, brought him to the period
when Virginia passed the ordinance Of
secession. On the day Of secession he
packed his books, said goodbye to DR..
Harrison and his fellow-students, and
alone started for Lynchburg. Two
days later he volunteered as pri-
vate in the Wise troop. He was
then eighteen years Of age. On the
lst of May Governor Letcher commits
stoned him second lieutenant in the
provisional army Of Virginia. and, un-
der orders, he at once reported for duty
10 General Joseph E. Johnston at
Harper's Ferry. Here he was assigned
to a command in the Stonewall brigade.
lie was in the first action Of Johnston's
troops at Falling Waters, and made
the forced march with that command
to Join Beauregard at Manassas. Lieu
tenant Daniel bore an honorable part
in the charge made by Jackson's bri-
gade upon the famous Sherman battery
at the Henry House. Here it was that
Bee saw Jackson standing like a
stone WALL" and here Daniel got three
wounds.
HOW GOES THE BATTLE.
At the close Of the days fight at
Manassas Major Daniel was limping to
the hospital, walking with two inverted
musketS as crutches. He was covered
with blood, dust, and powder. When
some distance from the field where the
fighting had occurred the Major met a
Richmond company, with Captain DR. }
j. Grattan Cabell at its head. The
Doctor and the Major were friends, but
the latter was so disguised with the
stains of battle that he was not recog-
nized by his Richmond acquaintance.
Stopping moment, Captain Cabell
asked.
"How goes the day."
Hot and heavy" replied the Major.
1--WE need every man in front; press
on with all speed"
DR.. Cabell recognized the voice.
why, this is John Daniel" and then
added, Il have met fifty men to-day
leaving the field, and you are the first
man who didn't say that we were all
cut to pieces and the day was lost"
SHOT DOWN AGAIN.
For several months the Lieutenant
was confined to his bed by these
wounds. Very soon after his partial
recovery he was elected second lieuten-
ant of Company A, Eleventh Virginia
infantry, a command composed OF his
fellow-townsmen. For gallantry he
was subsequently made adjutant Of the
Eleventh Virginia regiment, and then
quickly rose to assistant adjutant-
general, with the rank Of major,
on the staff of Major-General Ju-
bal A. Early. On the 9th of May,
1864. in the battle Of the Wilderness,
while rallying a regiment and leading
them back to the charge, Major Daniel
was shot from his horse-his thigh
crushed by a minie-ball. He was car
ried to the field hospital, where his leg
was examined by DR.. Hunter McGuire,
Of Richmond; DR.. Brock, Of Rich
mond, and DR.. Morrison, of Rock
bridge. The bone just above the
knee was found to be shattered, and
the surgeons concluded to saw off four
inches and attempt to resect it. This
operation the Major bore with forti-
tude, and also subsequent ones required
by reason Of decayed bone.
Major Daniel was to have been or
dered on duty in the War Department,
and was sure Of promotion-having
been urgently recommended therefor
by a number of general officers and
army associatcs-when the war closed
and returned him to civil life.
THE MAJORS FATHER.
Major Daniels father was William
Daniel, of Cumberland county, for
many years a Judge Of the Circuit and
general courts. He was the Judge
whose famous observation that "a Id
lie is the first lick " is so often quoted.
He was an officer in the war Of 1912,
and served with credit in the Legisla-
ture of Virginia in 1929.
Major Daniels father, William Dam
iel. Jr.. was born in Winchester, Fred
erick county, Va, in lSOG. His mother
was Miss Baldwin, sister Of Judge Bris-
coe Baldwin, of Staunton, and cousin
of Hon. A. II. III. Stuart. Her father,
DR.. Baldwin, was a surgeon in General
WashiDgton's army. Before William
Daniel, Jr., was twenty-one years Of
age he was elected TO the Legislature,
and he there served several terms.
lie was a leading Democrat in this
section, and the famous debate in which
he participated at Campbell Court
house won for him considerable repu-
tation. There he met in political dis
putation Leslie Coombs, the famous
hunter-orator from Kentucky. The
contest showed that Coombs had found
a worthy foemsn in Virginia. His
father was one Of the most thorough
and scientific farmers Of Campbell
county, and for many years the presi-
dent of the Agricultural Society.