Daniel H . Reynolds Daniel Harris Reynolds ( December 14 , 1832 – March 14 , 1902 ) was a Confederate States Army brigadier general during the American Civil War . He was born at Centerburg , Ohio but moved to Iowa , Tennessee and finally to Arkansas before the Civil War . He was a lawyer in Arkansas before the war . After the war , Reynolds resume his practice of law and was a member of the Arkansas Senate for one term . Early life . Daniel Harris Reynolds was born on December 14 , 1832 in Centerburg , Ohio . He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware , Ohio . Future Confederate Brigadier General Otho F . Strahl was a classmate . Reynolds studied law privately at Somerville , Tennessee . He was admitted to the bar in 1858 . In that same year , he moved to Lake Village , Arkansas . American Civil War . Daniel H . Reynolds became a captain of cavalry in the Arkansas militia on May 25 , 1861 . This unit became Company " A " of the 1st Arkansas Mounted Rifles in the Confederate States Army and Reynolds became its captain on June 14 , 1861 . He served with this unit at the Battle of Wilson ' s Creek under then Colonel Thomas J . Churchill . After engaging in some skirmishes in Missouri and Arkansas , and the Battle of Pea Ridge the regiment transferred to service under Major General Earl Van Dorn , operating east of the Mississippi River . The regiment then fought , on foot , under Lieutenant General E . Kirby Smith , and later under General Braxton Bragg , in Kentucky and east Tennessee in 1862 and in the Tullahoma Campaign . Reynolds became the regiment ' s major on April 14 , 1862 , its lieutenant colonel on May 1 , 1862 and its colonel on September 20 , 1863 , after the Battle of Chickamauga . Reynolds won many commendations for his service , including praise from Brigadier General Bushrod Johnson for his efforts at Chickamauga . Reynolds was appointed a brigadier general on March 5 , 1864 . In April and May , he held brigade commands in the Confederate Departments of the Gulf and of Alabama and East Mississippi . as part of the garrison at Mobile , Alabama . His brigade then became part of Brigadier General James Cantey ' s division in the Army of Tennessee in May 1864 . They fought in the Atlanta Campaign , Franklin - Nashville Campaign and Carolinas Campaign . Reynolds was slightly wounded at the Battle of Franklin , Tennessee on November 30 , 1864 where six Confederate generals were killed and six others were wounded . He did not officially report the wound . He took part in the Battle of Nashville with his brigade , which helped cover the Confederate retreat from that battle . He returned to command a brigade in General George D . Johnston ' s division in February 1865 . Reynolds was struck by a cannonball and lost his left leg at the Battle of Bentonville , North Carolina on March 19 , 1865 . Daniel H . Reynolds was paroled at Charlottesville , Virginia on May 29 , 1865 and pardoned on November 13 , 1866 . Aftermath . After the war , Reynolds married and raised five children . He also resumed his law practice at Lake Village , Arkansas , and served in the Arkansas state senate for one term in 1866 – 1867 . Daniel Harris Reynolds died at Lake Village , Arkansas on March 14 , 1902 and is buried at Lake Village Cemetery .