Daniel Fisher
Daniel Fisher was born around 1836 in Pennsylvania. He eventually moved to Mason City, Illinois, and by 1860, he was working as a laborer on the farm of Levi Scott. He enlisted in the Union army on May 25, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company K of the 17th Illinois Infantry later that day. He fell ill in July but eventually recovered and rejoined his regiment. He was fatally wounded in the Battle of Fredericktown on October 21, 1861, and he died in a regimental hospital two days later.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (950) | Fisher, Daniel | 1836 | 1861-10-23 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 1
- (2959) [writer] ~ Daniel Fisher to James A. Walker, 10 July 1861
People - Records: 1
- (951) Walker, James Alexander is the [friend of] (950) Fisher, Daniel
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (316) [enlisted] [K] ~ 17th Illinois Infantry
SOURCES
1860 United States Federal Census, available from Ancestry.com; Registers of Deaths of Volunteers, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.
