Continued from October 11, 2020.
In 1852, he was assigned to Fort Albuquerque in New Mexico Territory and remained stationed on the frontier for five years. Temporarily under the command of Richard S. Ewell of the 3rd Dragoons, Lieutenant Daniel saw action in a series of skirmishes with Apache Indians in 1855.
In 1858, Daniel resigned his commission and became a planter in Louisiana, joining his father who had moved there in 1851 after his last term in Congress. In October 1860, he married Ellen Long.
CIVIL WAR SERVICE
The state of Louisiana offered Daniel a commission after Lincoln's call for volunteers, but he returned to Halifax, North Carolina, where he offered his services to his native state. he was chosen colonel of the 4th (later 14th N.C. Infantry). When the period of enlistment ended, he was offered command of several regiments before accepting that of the 45th Infantry Regiment.
Junius Daniel led four regiments from Raleigh to Goldsboro where he organized them into a brigade. Afterwards, he organized two other brigades. In June 1862, his brigade was ordered to Petersburg, Virginia, where his brigade joined the Army of Northern Virginia just before the Seven Days Battles, though it took no part in them.
--Old Secesh
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