S/o Elizabeth Berry & Robert B. Welch
Siblings:
Infant Welch 1826 –
Kate "Katy" Welch 1830 –
Martha Welch 1833 –
Henry Welch 1835 – 1880
Mary Welch 1837 –
John C. Welch 1839 –
William Andrew Jackson Welch 1843 –

H/o Martha Emily Carter
m. 11 Sep 1858 Lafayette Co., Miss.
Children:
James B. Welch 1860 – 1933
Joseph Howell Welch 1862 – 1935
Mary "Mollie" Louise Welch-Hastings 1863 – 1937
Martha L Welch 1865 –
William Andrew Welch 1867 – 1949
Susanna "Susie" A. Welch-Singleton 1869 – 1933
Robert Lee Welch 1872 – 1927
John W. Welch 1873 – 1926
Sarah Elizabeth Welch-Ales 1879 – 1966
Emma C Welch 1880 –
Isabel Welch 1882 – 1882

Enlisted: 19th Mississippi Regiment; Company E
15 Aug 1861-

Daniel was a family man, but also a soldier. He fought during the Civil War, was wonded and sent back into battle more than once.

"Daniel Lafayette Welch joined the 19th after they had been mustered into the Confederate Service and sent to Richmond. The command was sent on to Manassas and Daniel Lafayette joined them there on August 15 1861.

He was present for duty through all the skirmishes and on May 5, 1862 participated in the Williamsburg battle. Company ‘E' was cited for extraordinary heroism and Daniel Lafayette Welch was wounded and captured. He was treated in a Federal Hospital at Williamsburg and on May 12 1862 sent to Fort Monroe as a prisoner and for further treatment of his wounds.

Then he was sent to Fort Delaware where he was a prisoner and then exchanged on July 15 1862. He rejoined the 19th Mississippi and participated in Second Manassas. The 19th then marched with the Confederate Army into Maryland and took part in the battle of Antietam (Sharpsburg) on September 17 1862.

The 19th fought in a section of the battlefield known as ‘Bloody Lane', a sunken wagon road used by the local farmers. The named derived from the fact the bodies of the Confederates were stacked so high you could walk across the lane from side to side and not go down into the sunken part.

Daniel Lafayette Welch was grievously wounded in this battle. He was transported back into Virginia with the retreating Confederates and treated at Chimborazo Hospital. Sometime in October of 1862, he was furloughed to Oxford Mississippi and determined unfit for further duty.

He was carried on the Company Muster Rolls through December of 1864 as unfit for duty and permanently disabled."