for several months, and served in the defense of Richmond during the Stoneman and Dahlgren raids. He was transferred to the engineer corps and subsequently to Gen. John H. Morgan's command of cavalry, with which he participated in the campaign of 1864 in Southwest Virginia, East Tennessee and Kentucky. As a member of Company F of the First Kentucky cavalry, he participated in the severe engagements against Crook, Averell and Duffield, at Cloyd Mountain, and Wytheville, where Averell was wounded and the Federals lost 700 horses and men, taken prisoners. At Dublin he was wounded and captured, and after an exhausting and terrible march over the country to Ohio, was confined at Camp Chase for thirteen months. After long endurance of the privations and sufferings of the prison pen, the war ending, he was released and returned to Norfolk. Here he found employment as a printer at first, and was subsequently appointed to the office of street inspector. He served in this place four years, also four years as deputy sheriff. He was then elected to the office of sheriff; four years later he was elected to the general assembly of Virginia as senator from the Norfolk district. After serving in this body four years and declining re-election, he accepted an appointment as justice of the peace, still holding that office. He was chairman of the first electoral board of the city, is at present chairman of that body, served upon the police force soon after the war, and has been a member of the city council. In 1879 he was married to Rosa, daughter of Jacob Karcher, lately a business man of Norfolk. His family consists of Rosine, Gracie, Juanita, and Andrew J. Dalton, Jr., three girls and a boy.
Abram Venable Daniel, a prominent citizen of Roanoke, was born in Charlotte county, Va., in 1836, of parents who were of Scotch-Irish descent. His family contributed nobly to the Confederate cause, four of his brothers serving honorably in the ranks. They were Joseph M. Daniel, deceased; Henry S. Daniel, now of Charlotte county; John Daniel, of Littleton, N. C.; and Thomas W. Daniel, deceased. He entered the service of the Confederate States immediately after the battle of Manassas, of July, 1861, becoming a private in Bagby's company of heavy artillery. After serving with his command about a year, he was transferred to Wise's brigade of infantry and was attached to the color guard as a non-commissioned officer. He participated in all the fighting around Petersburg, at Seven Pines, in the campaign against Grant, where his company captured a battery and turned it on the enemy, the battle of the Crater, Chapin's Farm and Drewry's Bluff. During the retreat from Petersburg he was wounded in the leg, but he took part in the battle of Sailor's Creek and received another wound in the head. He escaped capture at this disaster, and in his wounded and suffering condition made his way to his home in Charlotte county. After farming one season he made his home at South Boston, Halifax county, and mingled the occupations of farming, conducting a grocery and dealing in leaf tobacco, with much success for a period of fifteen years. He then removed to Roanoke and there engaged in the coal and feed trade. In 1867 Mr. Daniel was married in Halifax county to Miss Owen, and they have four children; Fanny E., wife of J. J. Owen, of Green Bay, Va.; W. B. Daniel, Mabel M. and Myrtle W.
