From the April 13th Irish Central.
Private Daniel Hough, 36, was born 1825 in Tipperary, Ireland, emigrated to the US, enlisted October 1849 in Battery D of the 1st US Artillery Regiment.
He re-enlisted in 1859 at Fort Moultrie, Charleston, South Carolina, and was assigned to Battery E. He was described as having gray hair, blue eyes, fair complexion and 5'8" tall.
Hough was at Fort Sumter when it was fired on. After the surrender, a one hundred gun salute was to be fired by the fort before Confederates took possession. On the 47th round, a cannon fired prematurely and killed Private Hough.
He was buried on the Fort Sumter parade grounds and possibly later reinterred at Fort Moultrie's burial ground, the location of which has been lost to history. It is also possible that the body was taken to St. Lawrence Cemetery in Charleston, but there is no record of it.
It is known that he had two sisters and a brother named William who lived in or near New York City. They petitioned the government to move his remains from Charleston to NYC for proper burial, but that never happened.
More to Come. --Old B-Runner
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