Daniel Wilson
Sex: M
Birth: 8 Dec 1819
Death: 23 Mar 1863
Burial: Eoff Cemetery, Boone Co., Arkansas
Note:
Birth and Death dates are from the online data file listing for Eoff Cemetery, Boone Co. AR. The author confirmed these dates on a visit to this cemetery August, 2000. The stone of Daniel's wife Rhoda was not located. This is a large cemetery with many old gravestones that are hard to read. Rhoda's grave is undoubedly in this cemetery. The 1850 Hamilton Co. TN census shows Daniel's age as 31 and the 1850 Carroll Co. AR census shows him to be 40 years old.

Daniel Wilson census data:
1850 Hamilton Co. TN
from a book of the 1850 Tennessee census
page 577 household 818
Wilson, Daniel 31 TN
Rhoda 29 TN
Elizabeth 10
Samuel 7
Barbara 6
John 3
Russell 6/12

1860 Carroll Co. AR census
From census microfilm
Cooked Creek Twp (Boone Co. in 1869)
# 1006/980
Daniel Wilson 40 born Ohio
Rody 40 TN
Elisabeth J. 20 TN
Samuel B. 17 TN
Barbry C. 15 TN
John D. 12 TN
Owen R. 10 TN
William D. 7 AR
Joseph B. 4 AR
Lewis L. F. 1 AR

Excerpts form The Dan and Rhoda Saga
By Kirby Belle Prater
June , 1981
daughter of Joseph Baines Wilson and granddaughter of Daniel and Rhoda Wilson
page 2-3 The Daniel Wilson family homesteaded over 300 acres of land 3 miles south of Harrison on Highway 7 where the American Legion Hut now stands. Their home was just a short was north of this during the Civil War... Grandfather Dan, Daniel Wilson, and three of his sons, My Uncles Jeff, Doug, and Sam were in the Confederate Army during the Civil War... Grandfather Dan was very religious and was often called on to lead in prayer to assist in funerals. When on furlough in the hills of what is now Burns he was accosted by Union Carpetbaggers, or as my people knew them, bushwhackers, on three occasions. The first two times he was left alone because of his loud praying. The third time they put an end to this by cutting off his tongue, leaving him alone to die. Somehow his wife, my Grandmother Rhoda, got word of this. A neighbor found a cart and they loaded a cherry-wood chest with her best hand-made quilts and goose feather pillows for a casket and started on the long journey after the body. There were scarcely any roads in most sections to follow. Like the soldiers they had to go and return cross country with the body. With the help of neighbors a grave was dug and he was buried at Union Cemetery, or grave yard as it was then known. Rhoda vowed to hold the family together and to continue living a life of service to her neighbors so as to meet Dan later in the Kingdom where his tongue would be restored.
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The book Index to the Soldiers of the Twenty-Seventh Arkansas Confederate Infantry lists Wilson, Daniel Enrolled 15 Feb 1862 at Washington Barracks age 42, rank 3rd Lt. / 2nd Lt. Many of Daniel's neighbors enrolled in the 21st Infantry on the same day at the same place. Page 4 of this book explains the Twenty-Seventh Arkansas Infantry was comprised of "...about 1,887 men who left their homes in northern Arkansas, either as volunteers or conscripts, and gathered in northwestern Arkansas i the fall of 1862. Following the Battle of Prairie Grove in December, 1862, the unit marched, in January, 1863, form Van Buren to Little Rock. The men saw a little activity in southeastern Arkansas and northern Louisiana in the summer of 1863, and were present when Little Rock fell to federal troops in September 1863. The unit finished the war in southern Arkansas and only a few hundred men remained of the unit when they laid down their arms near Shreveport, Louisiana, in the spring of 1865. Over 500 men deserted the unit and a few hundred more are listed 'absent without leave,' in service records. Some of the deserters left after a few days or weeks in camp; others left for home around Christmas; and a large number left the unit after Little Rock fell. More than 200 deaths are listed and the actual total was probably higher. Most of all the deaths were from disease rather than enemy fire. About 300 mean were taken prisoner..."

Boone County Families published by Boone County Historical Society, 1998 page 18 states:Part of the 27th Arkansas Confederate Regiment was formed at Bellefonte on February 15, 1862. Henry Helton, was agent for the government. J. O. Ruble was in charge of many of the men who were recruited. Beal Gaither was also and officer.

From 27th Arkansas Infantry Regiment at http://www.aristotle.net/~tomezell/AR_infy.htm

The 27th Arkansas Infantry was organized in July, 1862 under the command ofColonel James R. Shaler, with field officers Lt. Col. Arthur J. Magenis, Lt.Col. James M. Riggs, and Major (later Colonel) Beal Gaither, and sworn intoConfederate service for the duration of the war. The regiment was recruitedfrom the following counties: Co. A, Yellville and Izard county; Co. B,Carroll county; Co. C; Bellefonte and Searcy county; Co. D, Richland; Co. E,Marion county; Co. F, Locust Grove and Jasper; Co. G, Mount Olive; Co. H,Izard county; Co. I, Independence county; and Co. K,, from Yellville.

They were initially assigned to Shaver's Brigade of Hindman's Division innorthwest Arkansas in January and February of 1863, then to Tappan'sBrigade, in Gen'l Sterling Price's Division, from April to November of 1863.They remained with Tappan's Brigade through the remainder of the war.

In the first weeks of September, 1863, the 27th served in the Little Rockdefenses at present-day North Little Rock. After General Price abandonedLittle Rock, the 27th retreated down the Southwest Trail to Benton and on tothe vicinity of Arkadelphia, while they spent the winter of 1863.

General Kirby Smith ordered Churchill's Arkansas Division which had most ofhis infantry (including Tappan's and Gause's brigades) to Shreveport,Louisiana in late March, 1864 to counter the advance of Union General
Nathaniel Banks up the Red River.

The 27th served through most of the Red River Campaign during March-May1864, including the final battle in the southern phase of this campaign at Pleasant Hill. They then slung their knapsacks and went back north intoArkansas in time to fight at Jenkins' Ferry on April 30, 1864. The regiment saw little additional combat during the rest of the war, and eventually
surrendered with General Kirby Smith on May 26, 1865.

From the book Arkansas in the Civil War found at the Harrison page 77:William Wallace Crum mustered into the army on February 15, 1862, as a Second Libertine in Company D, Twenty-seventh Arkansas Infantry, which had not been completely armed prior to Prairie Grove, and when it started northward, most of the Lieutenant en still carried an old hunting rifle or a shot gun. On the march, Colonel J. R. Shaler went to General Hindman and informed him that "it would be counted no less than murder" to send the regiment into without the "arms to defend themselves." EH begged the commander to send the Twenty-seventh back to Van Buren, and Hindman agreed. After the battle the regiment watched as several hundred Federal prisoners were being marched to Fort Smith. After looking them over, one rebel soldier declared that "the fellows look like they have been having plenty to eat before they were captured. But if they stay with us long, and are fed on the same kind and quantity of rations we get their faces will begin to look slim and lean like ours." The Twenty-seventy marched to Little Rock with what remained of Hindman's army. Suffering "untold miser, hunger, and cold," the remains of the Twenty-seventy Infantry staggered into the capital on January 14, 1863."


Mother: Elizabeth B. b: 5 May 1794

Marriage 1 Rhoda Beene b: 20 Apr 1820
Married:
Children
Elizabeth J. Wilson b: Abt 1840 in Tennessee
Samuel J. Wilson b: 1843 in Tennessee
Barbara Caroline Wilson b: 1844 in Tennessee
John Douglas Wilson b: 1848 in Tennessee
Russell Owen Wilson b: 29 Apr 1850
William D. Wilson b: 11 Jan 1853 in Boone Co., Arkansas
Joseph Baines Wilson b: 1 Jan 1856 in Boone Co., Arkansas
Lewis L. F. Wilson b: 16 Aug 1858
Lonnie Wilson b: Aft 1860 in Boone Co., Arkansas
Jefferson Davis Wilson b: 1861