PVT Daniel A. Pierce
1829 - 1895
Union
Civil War
Daniel A. Pierce was born in Cayuga County, New York on July 30, 1829 to Robert and Annis Hammond Pierce.
On March 20, 1856, he married Rosena Bowker in Locke, New York, and they raised four children before her death in 1870.
Pierce and his bride moved to Wisconsin with other pioneers from New York, where they farmed, and had two children before returning briefly to New York. They were living in Hillsborough, Wisconsin when Pierce entered the service of the United States as a Private in Company I of the 6th Wisconsin Infantry on January 11, 1864. He participated in the Overland Campaign, including the Battle of the Wilderness, before mustering out July 14, 1865.
After the war, they had two more children before his wife’s death. By 1880, he had remarried and was farming near Sioux Falls, Dakota Territory. He was living in Barrington by 1895, with sons in Chicago and Rockford.
PVT Daniel A. Pierce died in Barrington on August 25, 1895, and is buried in Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.