City: Nashville
DANLEY, William L., General Passenger Agent N., C. & St. L. railway; born Carthage, Tenn.; son of Rowland and Darthula C. (McDonald) DANLEY; paternal grandfather Edward Hardaway DANLEY, maternal grandparents Colonel Henry Brown and Mary (Crowder) MCDONALD; Scotch-Irish descent; educated in private schools of Carthage, Granville and Nashville, Tenn.; began his career as a farmer; entered C. S. A. Company F (Capt. Jack BUTLER), First Tennessee, as private; Orderly Sergeant afterward; was in battles of Cheat Mountain and Bath, W. Va. (Romney Expedition), Shiloh, Perryville, Stone River, Murfreesboro and Chickamauga; wounded at Chickamauga; after battle of Murfreesboro was transferred to Col. Stanton’s command, which was consolidated with the Twenty-eighth Tennessee; First Lieutenant Company G (Capt. Wayman L. WOOD); surrendered at Macon, Ga.; General Ticket Agent Memphis & Charleston Railroad, 1866-67; Clerk to General Agent L. & N. R. R., Memphis, Tenn., 1868; General Passenger Agent Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, September, 1868; married Lucy G. SHAFFER, January 22, 1866.
