Daniel W. McLaurin Bio:

Transcribed by Daniel W.Eison. 
Daniel W.McLaurin was one of my G.G.Uncles.

Daniel W. McLaurin

23rd South Carolina Infantry  Regiment G Company
EVANS BRIGADE  Ranked  Pvt. when he joined, and was promoted Corporal by the end of the war. 

Stationed at Morris Island, May 9,1862. He fought in every engagement that Evans Brigade participated in while attached to the Army Of Northern Virginia.  In Febuary 25,1864, he was listed as sick and stationed at Sullivans Island,S.C. He was reported A.O.L. in January and February 1865.He was captured in Bennettsville,S.C.,March 6,1865.On the ROLL OF POW,S  recieved at New Bern,N.C. from Capt.A.Burns,Company D,10th Illinois Infantry.  Roll dated office of Chief Provost Marshall District of  Beaufort,New Bern,N.C. March 26,1865.His name appears on an OATH OF ALLIEGENCE TO THE UNITED STATES at Point Lookout,Md.,on June 29,1865.
At this time he was released from prison to go home.