From Wikipedia.
JUNIUS DANIEL
June 27, 1828-May 13, 1864
Planter and career military officer, serving in the U.S. and then the C.S. armies. His troops were instrumental in the Confederate success at the first day of the Battle of Gettysburg. He was killed in action at the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House.
He was born in Halifax, North Carolina, the son of a wealthy political family. His father, John Reeves Jones Daniel served as attorney general for North Carolina and member of the U.S. Congress. His mother, Mary Stith, came from a family of prominent Virginians that descended from John Stith and William Randolph.
Education for Daniel came at local school in Halifax and then another school in Raleigh. President James K. Polk appointed him to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1846 and graduated from there with the Class of 1851, ranking 33rd out of 41 one in that group.
Appointed brevet 2nd lieutenant in the 3rd U.S. Infantry, he was sent to Newport, Kentucky, as assistant quartermaster.
Further Service in U.S. Army. --Old Secesh
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