WILLIAM DANIELS
had to add several years to his age in order to be the required
age of eighteen. He was a fat, jolly, fellow liked by everybody,
and went by the name of "Dilly Daniels." He was working in a
bakery when he enlisted, and like most growing boys had a
wonderful appetite which had made a market for many of the good
things in the bakery, and a change to hard tack and pork told on
him, but he never grumbled or found fault, but always seemed
perfectly satisfied. He was a faithful and brave soldier; after
the war he engaged in the meat and provision business in St.
Johnsbury, and was a good citizen and a successful business man.
He died about ten years ago.
Source: History of the 13th Regiment Vermont Volunteers
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