[532] Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academy of Charleston and from that time until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corps on Morris island. Later in the same year he enlisted as second lieutenant in Company K, Fourth South Carolina regiment, and went to Virginia. Receiving an order from Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of war, to raise a company, he was instrumental in organizing Company L, Palmetto sharpshooters, of which he was elected first lieutenant and later promoted captain. While in command of this company at the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded. He lay in hospital two years, and when he came forth found that he had sacrificed the use of his left leg for the cause. As a member of the engineer corps he took part in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and while in the infantry service participated in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg and Seven Pines. He saw the first ball strike Fort Sumter and the first shell exploded over it. Returning home from the war he was elected to the office of county clerk, taking his seat on the 11th of February, 1865. He was re-elected to this office for five successive terms, serving in all for twenty years. In 1886 he was elected to the legislature, in which he served one term, and then received an appointment as bookkeeper in the comptroller-general's office at Columbia, which position he held for two years and a half. His health failing, he retired from official duty and returned to Anderson, where he has since lived a retired and quiet life. He belongs to Stephen D. Lee camp, U. C. V. Captain Daniels was married, October 27, 1881, to Mrs. Julia D. Carpenter, nee Webb, daughter of Dr. Edmund Webb.
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[532] Grant. Captain Daniels' early life was spent at Pendleton, S. C. In 1852 he graduated from the Citadel military academy of Charleston and from that time until the beginning of the war was occupied as a teacher and surveyor. In February, 1861, six weeks before the attack on Fort Sumter, he joined Gwinn's engineer corps on Morris island. Later in the same year he enlisted as second lieutenant in Company K, Fourth South Carolina regiment, and went to Virginia. Receiving an order from Judah P. Benjamin, secretary of war, to raise a company, he was instrumental in organizing Company L, Palmetto sharpshooters, of which he was elected first lieutenant and later promoted captain. While in command of this company at the battle of Seven Pines he was severely wounded. He lay in hospital two years, and when he came forth found that he had sacrificed the use of his left leg for the cause. As a member of the engineer corps he took part in the bombardment of Fort Sumter, and while in the infantry service participated in the battles of First Manassas, Williamsburg and Seven Pines. He saw the first ball strike Fort Sumter and the first shell exploded over it. Returning home from the war he was elected to the office of county clerk, taking his seat on the 11th of February, 1865. He was re-elected to this office for five successive terms, serving in all for twenty years. In 1886 he was elected to the legislature, in which he served one term, and then received an appointment as bookkeeper in the comptroller-general's office at Columbia, which position he held for two years and a half. His health failing, he retired from official duty and returned to Anderson, where he has since lived a retired and quiet life. He belongs to Stephen D. Lee camp, U. C. V. Captain Daniels was married, October 27, 1881, to Mrs. Julia D. Carpenter, nee Webb, daughter of Dr. Edmund Webb.
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