Friday, April 13, 2012

Daniel James Turner, Jr., student 1859-1861

Turner enlisted as a private on March 1, 1862 in the 1st Co. Milligan's Independent Signal Corps. He was detailed on a blockade runner out of Wilmington, NC from August through December 1864.

He resided in Norfolk, VA after the war where in 1880 he was an agent for a steamship company. By 1900, he was a real estate developer. Turner died on November 22,1914 and is buried in Portsmouth, VA in Cedar Grove Cemetery.

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