Hi, George, and thanks so much for checking into this. I'd read the info at the link about the 5th before, but not the 13th. I don't think the 13th can be right as my great, great definitely lost his leg at Spring Hill and the 5th was there, but the 13th was not. So far I've not found him in the census, which kinda perturbs me, but I have a citation for him upon his death on 1-12-76 in acknowledgement of his service as county clerk of Winston County. And what is written in the old family Bible is that he died in '76 from complications of using crutches for 12 years. I've been asking doctors about that, just how that could come about. I don't know if he had a prosthesis or not or just used the crutches or had a combo. All the pictures I have of him after the war only show him
from the waist up. I know his father's name was George McDaniel but that's as far back as I go with that particular line, which is much, much less than I have on other lines. The South Carolinians fare much better and I have Revolutionary War info on a batch of
them. I don't even know if George was the generation that came over from Scotland or if there were earlier ones. I see the 13th was at Appomattox and my SC guys were definitely there, but not J. J. One of the confusing things about J. J. is that in some of my records he's listed as James Jonothan and in others as Jonothan James, but his initials were definitely J. J. I tried looking for
James McDaniels in Mississippi units but every other soldier seems to have been named thusly. I ruled out all the ones with different middle initials, but found James McDaniels in the 2nd regiment of State cavalrly, the 2nd battalion of State cavalry (Harris),
the 4th battalion of cavalry, in Yerger's Regiment of cavalry, in the 1st battalion of state infantry troops, and in the 2nd regiment of infantry. The only J. J. (just initials, no actual name) was in the 5th, company F and then from what you provided in the 13th, but
as I said, where the 13th served does not fit with where he served. He was with Hood in Tennessee, headed for Nashville, but waylaid at Spring Hill. My great great grandmother wrote in the old Bible that "he lost his leg at Spring Hill before the Franklin Battle." She was from Montgomery, Alabama, Adeline Eugenia Supple (had been O'Supple back in northern Ireland) and they married on 8-28-66, a month before she turned 16. He took her to MS with him and after he died and left her a widow with 4 children, she went back to Alabama and ran a boarding house for students near Highland Home College, where my great grandmother met my great grandfather, who was a student there.