University of Virginia - Corks and Curls Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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1908 CORKS AND CURLS t 3 31mm 111. Eanivl . J; . ,1 4;? r 'ng .-. amr-as Ln. -r pl '9 . ,1 OHN WARWICK DANIEL stands in the front rank among ' eminent Virginians of this day and generation. He was born on the fifth of September, 1842, of'distinguished and talented ; ancestry. His father, Judge William Daniel, Jr.,iwas one v , a of the ablest lawyers and most learned judges in the State. ' b Mk q Major Daniel tifor the writer of this, who was his comrade in arms, prefers to call him by his military titlei 'was attending the Classical school presidedeover by Dr. Gessner Harrison, the great Latin scholar and University ; Professor, when the Confederate War commenced. . 13 CI; At the iirst call to arms young Daniel volunteered in the nineteenth. year of 1 $ ' his age and entered the Confederate Army as Second Lieutenant of an infantry P .V 141,15. . '11- m'f'fq'vw 1.. company in the famous ' Stonewall Brigade? In the tirst battle of Manassas he was conspicuous for his gallantry and fell on that bloody field seriously 3 a wounded. Afterwards he was made First Lieutenant and Adjutant of the i . . 11th Virginia Infantry, and was severely wounded at the battle of Boonesboro, in Maryland. He returned to the field as soon as his wounds sufficiently healed and was made Major and Chief of Staff of General Jubal A. Early, in which capacity he served until again terribly crippled in the great battle of iiThe W'il- dernessfi on the sixth of May, 1864. Ever since then his loving friends and admirers have described him as iiThe Lame Lion of Virginia? 0; After the war he studied law at the University of Virginia during the session of 1865-66, and thereafter practiced with his father until his death in 1873. No citizen of Virginia has been more honored than Major Daniel. He became dis- tinguished as a lawyer, as an author of law books, as a Virginia Legislator, and as a brilliant orator before he entered the Senate of the United States. itDaniel on Attachmentsii and 8Daniel on Negotiable Instrument? are among the standard law books, not only of America,ebut of England, and many of his arguments before the Supreme Court of the State marked him as one of the most erudite and powerful advocates who practiced before that Court. G; He was a member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 1869 to 1872,