DONELSON, Daniel Smith

Affiliation:  Union

Born: June 23 1801, Sumner Cty TN

Died: April 17 1863, Montvale Springs TN

Pre-War Profession: Graduated West Point 1825, resigned 1826, planter, politician

War Service: 1861 Brig. Gen. of state troops, July 1861 Brig. Gen. in Confederate Army, served in West Virginia, then in Charleston, commanded 1st Bde/Cheatham's Divn at Murfreesboro , commanded the Dept of East Tennessee, died of natural causes, 22 April 1863 Maj. Gen.

Post War: He died of chronic diarrhea at the mineral water resort Montvale Springs, near Knoxville, Tennessee in 1863.