John, I have a record on a John W. L. DANIEL from a Raleigh NC newspaper as follows: 1379 DANIEL: M. in Richmond county, on 8th May, Mr John W.L. DANIEL, of Cheraw, SC, to Miss Sarah A. GRAHAM, of their former county. RaNCSw Fri 4 July 1823 3:4. He was a son of Zadock DANIEL & Elizabeth LEWIS of NC and name was John Williams Lewis DANIEL. It would seem this individual may have been a bit old to be a Confederate Officer later on. He supposedly died in 1870 in Milledgeville, Ga. However, that is a rather unique set of initials combination in the name so perhaps this is an earlier relation. Mike Daniel