Daniel White (general)

Daniel White
Born	1833 Winterport, Maine
Died	1895 (aged 61–62) Boston, Massachusetts
Allegiance	United States of America Union
Service / branch	Union Army
Rank	Colonel Bvt. Brigadier General
Unit	2nd Maine Infantry Regiment
Commands	31st Maine Infantry Regiment
Battles / wars	American Civil War
Other work	Businessman

Daniel White (1833–1895) was a Union Army officer in the American Civil War from the state of Maine.

Biography

Born in Winterport, Maine, a suburb of Bangor, White's father was a sea captain. In 1855 he spent a year mining for gold in California, returning to start a manufacturing venture in Bangor. With the outbreak of the American Civil War in 1861, White raised and commanded a company of the 2nd Maine Infantry Regiment, the first regiment to march out of the state. When the unit was mustered out of service in 1863, White returned to the front with the 31st Maine Infantry Regiment, and was promoted to Colonel the following year. During the Battle of the Crater, part of the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, White was captured by Confederate forces and held as a prisoner of war for seven months, but eventually was repatriated through a prisoner exchange. In 1865 he was brevetted Brigadier General of Volunteers.

After the war White ran a soap manufactory in Bangor, and remained an active veteran and member of the Grand Army of the Republic. He died in Boston in 1895, and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery, Bangor.

See also

• List of American Civil War brevet generals (Union)

References

• History of Penobscot County, Maine (Cleveland, 1882), p. 790
• Eicher, John H.; David J. Eicher (2001). Civil War High Commands. Stanford University Press. p. 565. ISBN 0-8047-3641-3.