From Wikipedia.
Back on October 5th, I wrote about John W. Daniel speaking before the veterans of the Stonewall Brigade at the Grand Reunion in Staunton, Virginia, in 1900. He was called "The Lame Lion of Lynchburg." I had never heard of him or his nickname. Some research was called for.
John Warwick Daniel (1842-1910) American lawyer, author and Democratic politician from Lynchburg, Virginia, where he was born and grew up at the Point of Honor mansion owned by his father who was a friend of Thomas Jefferson and physician of Patrick Henry.
John Daniel served in the Virginia House of Delegates and five terms as US Senator.
Served in the Confederate Army from 1861-64, rising to the rank of major and serving on the staff of General Jubal Early. He was seriously wounded at the 1864 Battle of the Wilderness and so disabled that he resigned his commission.
There is a statue of him in Lynchburg in the triangle formed by 9th and Floyd streets and Park Avenue. He is seated and holding crutches. Daniel is considered one of Virginia's foremost orators.
I was unable to find out anything about the particulars of his injury.
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