From: Confederate Military History Extended Edition.  Edited by Gen. 
Clement A. Evans of Georgia.  Wilmington, NC. Broadfoot Publishing 
Company, 1987; pages 270-271.

ADDITIONAL SKETCHES ILLUSTRATING THE SERVICES OF OFFICERS AND 
PRIVATES AND PATRIOTIC CITIZENS OF WESTERN VIRGINIA.

*DANIEL E. STALNAKER*

Daniel E. Stalnaker, a citizen of Wheeling, W. Va., prominent in
business and public affairs, served throughout the war of 1861-65
as a Confederate soldier in a considerable number of important
campaigns and engagements. He was born in Union, Monroe county,
in 1839, and was reared and educated at Lewisburg, Greenbrier
county. In April, 1861, he was among the first in that region to
answer the call of the State for soldiers to combat the threatened
invasion of the State, and joined the Confederate forces at
Harper's Ferry, where he became a private in Company B of the
Twenty-seventh Virginia infantry regiment. He took part in the 
famous battle of Manassas and the rout of McDowell's troops in July, 
1861, and in the spring of 1862 was with the force under "Stonewall" 
Jackson which resisted the Federal advance into the Shenandoah 
valley. In the first engagement of this campaign, at Kernstown, March 
23d, he was captured by the enemy. He was sent to Baltimore by his 
captors, and thence was transported to Fort Delaware, where he was 
held as a prisoner of war until the following August. On the first of 
that month he was exchanged at Aiken's Landing, and two days later he 
reached Richmond, afflicted with a bad case of scurvy contracted in 
the Northern prison pen. The effects of his illness were so serious 
that he was compelled to return to his home for recuperation, and it 
was not until considerably later in the war that he was able to 
rejoin the army as a private in the Fourteenth Virginia cavalry. He 
participated in the battles of Sharpsburg and Monocacy and numerous 
other cavalry engagements, until the close of hostilities, when he 
returned to Lewisburg and resumed the occupations of civil life. 
After residing at Columbia, S. C., a year, he made his home at 
Wheeling in 1876. Here he has been engaged in the real estate 
business, and is active and influential in various channels. From 
1892 until 1896 he served as a director of the penitentiary of West 
Virginia.


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