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Facts and Events
References
- ↑ Buried with Masonic honors at Union Church, near his home in Grove Hill. The Rev. M. Frazer presided.
- ↑ Daniel McLeod was a Captain in the Confederate States Army. As a child, I visited the house he lived in in Grove Hill, Alabama. Daniel and signed his name in the corner of one of the window panes. We had hoped to salvage that pane but years later it was broken - I assume by vandals.
Daniel was Captain of Dickerson's Guards - Company E, 24th Alabama Infantry.
He also served in Company D, 57th AL Regiment and was paroled from service on April 26, 1865 in Greensboro, N.C.
In a letter written by Dr. L.C. Calhoun, Daniel's nephew: "Uncle Daniel was a very intellectual man. He was considered one of the smartest in the Confederate Army by many. The school teachers in our county would bring him problems to solve when they could not do it themselves. When he solved the problem with math, they would say, 'By what rule did you do that?'. I heard him reply once that 'it was not by any rule...I knew the principle of the thing'. As I recollect, he never spent more than 6 months in his entire life attending school".
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