Husband of Arthenia Colvin Daniel and father to Walter, Jasper, Arthenia Baker, Clarence, Henry, Joseph, and Gregory Daniel.

Served as a confiderate soldier.
In book "The Genealogy of Kentucky" by Somerset Publishers
"In 1861 ... Lincoln when the state legislature finally denounced the rebellion and appropriated funds to drive the Confederate army out of Kentucky ." Henry Fletcher Daniel then went back home to hide from those Union Soldiers ordered to run Confederate Soldiers out of Kentucky.
Also reported in same book: " March 11, 1862 Legislature rules that any person in Confederate Army or service who gives voluntary air against United States or Kentucky, shall be expatriated and no longer be a citizen of Kentucky except by permit of State Legislature."

When he came back from fighting during a break the Union soldiers went looking for him. He hid in the attic and later stated that he was so close to the Union Soldiers guns that he could have put his finger in the barrel
Herbert and one other brother made up the only 22 Confiderate soldiers from this area

CONFEDERATE KENTUCKY TROOPS

3rd Battalion, Kentucky Mounted Rifles

3rd Battalion Mounted Rifles [also called 1st or 10th Battalion] was organ ized during the late summer of 1862. The unit served in the Departme nt of East Tennessee, and later in the Department of Western Virginia a nd East Tennessee. It skirmished in various conflicts in Tennessee, Kentuc ky, and Virginia, then surrendered at Bowling Green, Kentucky, in April, 1 865. The field officers were Lieutenant Colonel E.F. Clay, and Majors P. M. Everett and J.B. Holladay.

Commmonwealth of Kentucky
State Board of Health
Bureau of Vital Statistics
CERTIFICATE OF DEATH

file # 21377

1. Place of Death: County- Campbell, Inc. Town- Dayton
Registration District No.- 202, Primary Registration District No.- 209 3
2. Full Name: Henry Fletcher Daniels
3. Sex: Male
4. Color or Race: White
5. Widower
6. Date of Birth: June 22, 1840
7. Age: 82
8. Occupation: Farmer
9. Birthplace: Campbell Co., Ky
10. Name of Father: Beverly Daniels
11. Birthplace of Father: Va
12. Name of Mother: Anna Mayfield [note by sns-all evidence to date sho
mother as Anna Stephenson, not Mayfield]
13. Birthplace of Mother: Va
14. The above is true to the best of my knowledge:
Informant: Walter Mayfield, Dayton, Ky
15. Filed: Oct 26, 1922
16. Date of Death: blank
17. Cause of Death: last seen alive by physician on 21 Oct 1922; cause-
diseses[sic] incidental to old age. Signed: J. F. Houston or Thurston (?)
October 21, 1922, Alexandria, KY
18. Length of residence: blank
19. Place of Burial: Grants Lick, Ky, Oct. 22, 1922
20. Undertaker: Vonderhaar & Stetter, Newport, Ky


Henry Fletcher Daniel had a horse named Lucinda Minerva Jeanetta Georgea nn Josephine Martha Virginia