1860 > Ohio > MORGAN > HOMER TWP Series: M653 Roll: 1016 Page: 485
Danford,Pete19MFarmerOH
Nancy E19FOH
Sontine11/12MOH

1870 CENSUS - UNION TOWNSHIP - WORTH COUNTY, MISSOURI

Rol Pge Seq Family name Ind name Age Birthplace
826 416 4 Danford Patterson 30 Ohio (Peter?)
826 416 4 Danford Nancy 30 Ohio
826 416 4 Danford Solenturi ? 11 Ohio
826 416 4 Danford Maxwell 9 Ohio
826 416 4 Danford Malcomb 6 Ohio
826 416 4 Danford Texas 48 Ohio (Zenis4 yr 8 mo)
826 416 4 Danford Carrol C 1 Pennsylvania (Carl?)

1880 Census -- Locust Township, Christiam Co, ILL
(Vol 4, ED 64, Sheet 3, Line 26, Roll 180)

1880Census Place:Locust, Christian, Illinois
Source:FHL Film 1254180 National Archives Film T9-0180 Page 548C
RelationSexMarrRaceAgeBirthplace
Peter DANFORDSelfMMW38OHOcc:FarmerFa: OHMo: OH
Nancy DANFORDWifeFMW39OHOcc:Keeping HouseFa: OHMo: OH
Malcom DANFORDSonMSW16OHOcc:Farm LaborerFa: OHMo: OH
Zenis DANFORDSonMSW14OHOcc:At HomeFa: OHMo: OH
Carl DANFORDSonMSW11OHOcc:Attending SchoolFa: OHMo: OH
Joy DANFORDSonMSW8MOOcc:Attending SchoolFa: OHMo: OH
Harry DANFORDSonMSW6MOOcc:Attending SchoolFa: OHMo: OH
Bertha DANFORDDauFSW3MOFa: OHMo: OH

Decatur Daily Republican
Aug 24, 1882
P. T. Danford, editor of the Taylorville Journal, paid me a fraternal call last evening.

Decatur Daily Republican
Jan. 6 1883
P T Danford has sold the Taylorville Journal office to A G Barnes and Albert Sattley, who will enlarge the paper.

1900 > Illinois > CHRISTIAN > STONINGTON TWP Series: T623 Roll: 242 Page: 274
Danford,Peter THeadWMMay 184060M 40OHOHOH
Nancy LWifeWFSep 183960M 40 9/9OHOHOH
Bertha RDauWfAug 187623SOHOHOH
Ercil ASonWMJun 188118SOHOHOH

Thursday Evening, September 28, 1903. THE DECATUR REVIEW
P T Danford of Stonington visited his son, Sontine Danford, Monday

The Decatur Review
Friday Evening September 10, 1909
P T Danford is building a 6 room cottage in the Homestead addition.

1910 > Illinois > CHRISTIAN > STONINGTON TWP Series: T624 Roll: 235 Page: 16
Danford, Peter THeadMW69M1 51OHOHOHMerchant
Nancy LWifeFW70M1 51 9/8OHOHOH

The Decatur Daily Review
Oct 12, 1912
P T Danford while en route to the state fair, had his pocket picked of $6 last Tuesday. The theft occurred between here and Taylorville.

The Decatur Daily Review
Feb 7 1914
Squire P T Danford has announced that he wishes to be elected assessor.

1920 > Illinois > ADAMS > RIVERSIDE Series: T625 Roll: 296 Page: 263
Illinois Soldier and Sailors Home
Danford,PeterInmateMW78WOHOHOH

Civil War Vet.

Biography of Peter T. Danford, Co F

Peter Danford was born in Ohio about 1840. He enlisted in Company F under Captain John Jumper. Not much more is known about his early life or about his military service other than the fact that he was a Sergeant. His date of rank and promotion are not available. There is however some confusion as to his time in the service. The Roster of Ohio Troops says that he was discharged on April 12, 1863, on a Surgeon's certificate of disability. However, a who's who of Christian Co., Illinois by J. C. McBride published in 1904 says that he was discharged in 1864. The same source says that he participated in a number of important battles. If discharged in April 1863, the only major battle would have been Stones River.

After the war, he married a lady by the name of Nancy who was also a native Ohioan. After the war Peter and Nancy migrated to Grant City, Missouri where he taught school for nine years before moving his family to Owaneco, Christian County, Illinois in 1878. He purchased the Farmer's Journal of Taylorville in 1888. His journalistic endeavor ended after one year at which time he opened a grocery business in Owaneco. In 1896, he bought another newspaper and moved it to Stonington. Two years later he sold the newspaper and re-entered the grocery business for a short time. In 1904, he is listed as serving as a police magistrate and notary public in Stonington. Further information is unknown.

( Information obtained from Roster of Ohio Troops in the Civil War and Past and Present of Christian County, Illinois by Hon. J. C. McBride published by the S. J. Clark Co. Chicago, Illinois, 1904. Biography written by Glenn Davis, 2-25-2003)

The Decatur Review Wensday Evening,November 25, 1908

The Danford Golden Wedding is Today
For Twelve Years P.T. Danford Has Benn Stonington's Justice of Peace
Stonington, Nov, 25.--Among the most respected citizens of this place are Mr. and Mrs. P. T Danford, whose golden wedding anniversary is today. Their celebration will be quiet.
P. T. Danford was born in Noble county, Ohio, May 15, 1841. Nancy L Tibbetts was born in Athens county, Ohio, Sept. 23, 1839. The two were married in Mountsville, Morgan county, Ohio, Nov. 25, 1858, by Rev. Daniel Ricketts, pastor of the Methodist church of that place.
Went To War
Mr. Danford enlisted in the army in April, 1861, joining Company F. Eithteenth Ohio regiment. He was discharged in September, 1864, and moved from Ohio to northwestern Missouri five years later.
As a teacher in public schools Mr. Danford came from Missouri to Christian county, Illinois, in 1878, and located in Owaneco. He also ran a news paper there.
In Newspaper Business
When he came to Stonington Mr. Danford established the Stonington Star printing office and also the Mt. Auburn Tribune, as a branch in 1901. He has been a justice of the peace in stonington for the past twelve years and still holds the office.
The Danfords are the parents of nine children, eight boys and one girl. They are: S. T. Danford, living in Owaneco, and engaged in the drug business; C. M. Danford of Golden, Colo., sumperintendent of the printing department of the industrial school; M. M. Danford, a printer in Chicago; Z. A. Danford, teaching in Sacramento, Cal; C. C. Danford, a comedian living in Oklahoma; J. T. Danford of the Twelfth U. S. Infantry at Fort Jay, N. Y.; H. A. Danford, a Springfield printer; Mrs. Bertha Finson, of Monticello; and T. A. Danford, also a printer in the state capital.


Peter T. Danford (First_Last)
Regiment Name 18 Ohio Infantry
Side Union Company F
Soldier's Rank_In Sgt.
Soldier's Rank_Out Sgt.
Alternate Name
Notes
Film Number M552 roll 24



UNION OHIO VOLUNTEERS

18th Regiment, Ohio Infantry

Organized at Athens, Ohio, August 16 to September 28, 1861. Moved to Camp Dennison, Ohio, and organization there completed November 4, 1861. Moved to Louisville, Ky., November 6, thence to Elizabethtown, Ky., November 15. Attached to 8th Brigade, Army of the Ohio to December, 1861. 8th Brigade, 3rd Division, Army of the Ohio, to July, 1862. Unattached, Railroad Guard, Army Ohio, to September, 1862. 29th Brigade, 8th Division, Army Ohio, to November, 1862. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Center 14th Army Corps, Army of the Cumberland, to January, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, 14th Army Corps, to October, 1863. 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, 14th Army Corps, to November, 1863. Engineer Brigade, Dept. of the Cumberland, to November, 1864.

SERVICE.-Duty at Elizabethtown and Bacon Creek, Ky., November, 1861, to February, 1862. Advance on Bowling Green, Ky., February 10-15, and on Nashville, Tenn., February 18-25. Occupation of Nashville, Tenn., February 25-March 18. Reconnoissance to Shelbyville, Tullahoma and McMinnville March 25-28. To Fayetteville April 7. Expedition to Huntsville, Ala., April 10-11. Capture of Huntsville April 11. Advance on and capture of Decatur April 11-14. Operations near Athens, Limestone Bridge, Mooresville and Elk River May 1-2. Near Pulaski and near Bridgeport May 1. Moved to Fayetteville May 31. Negley's Expedition to Chattanooga June 1-15. At Battle Creek till July 11. Guard duty along Tennessee & Alabama Railroad from Tullahoma to McMinnville till September. Short Mountain Road and McMinnville Augiist 29 (Cos. "A" and "I"). Retreat to Nashville, Tenn. Siege of Nashville September 12-November 7. Near Lavergne October 7. Duty at Nashville till December 26. Advance on Murfreesboro December 26-30. Battle of Stone's River December 30-31, 1862, and January 1-3, 1863. Duty at Murfreesboro till June. Middle Tennessee or Tullahoma Campaign June 23-July 7. Occupation of Middle Tennessee till August 16. Passage of Cumberland Mountains and Tennessee River and Chickamauga (Ga.) Campaign August 16-September 22. Davis Cross Roads or Dug Gap September 11. Battle of Chickamauga September 19-21. Rossville Gap September 21. Siege of Chattanooga, Tenn., September 24-November 23. Re-opening Tennessee River October 26-29. Brown's Ferry October 27. Chattanooga -Ringgold Campaign November 23-27. Orchard Knob November 23-24. Mission Ridge November 25. Engaged in Engineer duty at Chattanooga till October 20, 1864. Mustered out November 9, 1864.

Regiment lost during service 4 Officers and 72 Enlisted men killed and mortally wounded and 1 Officer and 107 Enlisted men by disease. Total 184.

Stones River  
Other Names: Murfreesboro
Location: Rutherford County
Campaign: Stones River Campaign (1862-63)
Date(s): December 31, 1862-January 2, 1863
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans [US]; Gen. Braxton Bragg [CS]
Forces Engaged: Army of the Cumberland [US]; Army of Tennessee [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 23,515 total (US 13,249; CS 10,266)

Description: After Gen. Braxton Bragg’s defeat at Perryville, Kentucky, October 8, 1862, he and his Confederate Army of the Mississippi retreated, reorganized, and were redesignated as the Army of Tennessee. They then advanced to Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and prepared to go into winter quarters.  Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans’s Union Army of the Cumberland followed Bragg from Kentucky to Nashville. Rosecrans left Nashville on December 26, with about 44,000 men, to defeat Bragg’s army of more than 37,000.  He found Bragg’s army on December 29 and went into camp that night, within hearing distance of the Rebels. At dawn on the 31st, Bragg’s men attacked the Union right flank. The Confederates had driven the Union line back to the Nashville Pike by 10:00 am but there it held. Union reinforcements arrived from Rosecrans’s left in the late forenoon to bolster the stand, and before fighting stopped that day the Federals had established a new, strong line. On New Years Day, both armies marked time. Bragg surmised that Rosecrans would now withdraw, but the next morning he was still in position. In late afternoon, Bragg hurled a division at a Union division that, on January 1, had crossed Stones River and had taken up a strong position on the bluff east of the river. The Confederates drove most of the Federals back across McFadden’s Ford, but with the assistance of artillery, the Federals repulsed the attack, compelling the Rebels to retire to their original position. Bragg left the field on the January 4-5, retreating to Shelbyville and Tullahoma, Tennessee. Rosecrans did not pursue, but as the Confederates retired, he claimed the victory. Stones River boosted Union morale.  The Confederates had been thrown back in the east, west, and in the Trans-Mississippi.

Result(s): Union victory

Chickamauga  
Other Names: None
Location: Catoosa County and Walker County
Campaign: Chickamauga Campaign (1863)
Date(s): September 18-20, 1863
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. William S. Rosecrans and Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas [US]; Gen. Braxton Bragg and Lt. Gen. James Longstreet [CS]
Forces Engaged: The Army of the Cumberland [US]; Army of Tennessee [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 34,624 total (US 16,170; CS 18,454)

Description: After the Tullahoma Campaign, Rosecrans renewed his offensive, aiming to force the Confederates out of Chattanooga. The three army corps comprising Rosecrans’ s army split and set out for Chattanooga by separate routes. In early September, Rosecrans consolidated his forces scattered in Tennessee and Georgia and forced Bragg’s army out of Chattanooga, heading south. The Union troops followed it and brushed with it at Davis’ Cross Roads. Bragg was determined to reoccupy Chattanooga and decided to meet a part of Rosecrans’s army, defeat them, and then move back into the city. On the 17th he headed north, intending to meet and beat the XXI Army Corps. As Bragg marched north on the 18th, his cavalry and infantry fought with Union cavalry and mounted infantry which were armed with Spencer repeating rifles. Fighting began in earnest on the morning of the 19th, and Bragg’s men hammered but did not break the Union line. The next day, Bragg continued his assault on the Union line on the left, and in late morning, Rosecrans was informed that he had a gap in his line. In moving units to shore up the supposed gap, Rosencrans created one, and James Longstreet’s men promptly exploited it, driving one-third of the Union army, including Rosecrans himself, from the field. George H. Thomas took over command and began consolidating forces on Horseshoe Ridge and Snodgrass Hill. Although the Rebels launched determined assaults on these forces, they held until after dark. Thomas then led these men from the field leaving it to the Confederates. The Union retired to Chattanooga while the Rebels occupied the surrounding heights.

Result(s): Confederate victory

Davis’ Cross Roads   
Other Names: Dug Gap
Location: Dade County and Walker County
Campaign: Chickamauga Campaign (1863)
Date(s): September 10-11, 1863
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. James Negley [US]; Maj. Gen. Thomas C. Hindman and Maj. Gen. John C. Breckinridge [CS]
Forces Engaged: Two divisions [US]; unknown [CS]

Estimated Casualties: Unknown

Description: After the Tullahoma Campaign, Rosecrans renewed his offensive, aiming to force the Rebels out of Chattanooga. The three corps comprising Rosecrans’s army split and set out for Chattanooga by separate routes. Hearing of the Union advance, Braxton Bragg concentrated troops around Chattanooga. While Col. John T. Wilder’s artillery fired on Chattanooga, Rosecrans attempted to take advantage of Bragg’s situation and ordered other troops into Georgia. They raced forward, seized the important gaps, and moved out into McLemore’s Cove. Negley’s XIV Army Corps division, supported by Brig. Gen. Absalom Baird’s division, was moving across the mouth of the cove on the Dug Gap road when Negley learned that Rebels were concentrating around Dug Gap. Moving through determined resistance, he closed on the gap, withdrawing to Davis’ Cross Roads in the evening of September 10 to await the supporting division. Bragg had ordered General Hindman with his division to assault Negley at Davis’ Cross Roads in the flank, while Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne’s division forced its way through Dug Gap to strike Negley in front. Hindman was to receive reinforcements for this movement, but most of them did not arrive. The Rebel officers, therefore, met and decided that they could not attack in their present condition. The next morning, however, fresh troops did arrive, and the Rebels began to move on the Union line. The supporting Union division had, by now, joined Negley, and, hearing of a Confederate attack, the Union forces determined that a strategic withdrawal to Stevens Gap was in order. Negley first moved his division to the ridge east of West Chickamauga Creek where it established a defensive line. The other division then moved through them to Stevens Gap and established a defensive line there. Both divisions awaited the rest of Maj. Gen. George Thomas’s corps. All of this was accomplished under constant pursuit and fire from the Confederates.

Result(s): Union strategic victory

Wauhatchie   
Other Names: Brown’s Ferry
Location: Hamilton County, Marion County, and Dade County
Campaign: Reopening of the Tennessee River (1863)
Date(s): October 28-29, 1863
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker [US]; Brig. Gen. Micah Jenkins [CS]
Forces Engaged: XI Army Corps and 2nd Division, XII Army Corps [US]; Hood’s Division [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 828 total (US 420; CS 408)

Description: In an effort to relieve Union forces besieged in Chattanooga, Maj. Gen. George H. Thomas and Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant initiated the “Cracker Line Operation” on October 26, 1863. This operation required the opening of the road to Chattanooga from Brown’s Ferry on the Tennessee River with a simultaneous advance up Lookout Valley, securing the Kelley’s Ferry Road. Union Chief Engineer, Military Division of the Mississippi, Brig. Gen. William F.  “Baldy” Smith, with Brig. Gen. John B. Turchin’s and Brig. Gen. William B. Hazen’s 1st and 2nd brigades, 3rd Division, IV Army Corps, was assigned the task of establishing the Brown’s Ferry bridgehead. Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker, with three divisions, marched from Bridgeport through Lookout Valley towards Brown’s Ferry from the south. At 3:00 am, on October 27, portions of Hazen’s brigade embarked upon pontoons and floated around Moccasin Bend to Brown’s Ferry. Turchin’s brigade took a position on Moccasin Bend across from Brown’s Ferry. Upon landing, Hazen secured the bridgehead and then positioned a pontoon bridge across the river, allowing Turchin to cross and take position on his right. Hooker, while his force passed through Lookout Valley on October 28, detached Brig. Gen. John W. Geary’s division at Wauhatchie Station, a stop on the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroad, to protect the line of communications to the south as well as the road west to Kelley’s Ferry. Observing the Union movements on the 27th and 28th, Confederate Lt. Gen. James Longstreet and Gen. Braxton Bragg decided to mount a night attack on Wauhatchie Station. Although the attack was scheduled for 10:00 pm on the night of October 28, confusion delayed it till midnight. Surprised by the attack, Geary’s division, at Wauhatchie Station, formed into a V-shaped battle line.  Hearing the din of battle, Hooker, at Brown’s Ferry, sent Maj. Gen. Oliver Otis Howard with two XI Army Corps divisions to Wauhatchie Station as reinforcements. As more and more Union troops arrived, the Confederates fell back to Lookout Mountain.  The Federals now had their window to the outside and could receive supplies, weapons, ammunition, and reinforcements via the  Cracker Line. Relatively few night engagements occurred during the Civil War; Wauhatchie is one of the most significant.

Result(s): Union victory

Chattanooga   
Other Names: None
Location: Hamilton County and City of Chattanooga
Campaign: Chattanooga-Ringgold Campaign (1863)
Date(s): November 23-25, 1863
Principal Commanders: Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant [US]; Gen. Braxton Bragg [CS]
Forces Engaged: Military Division of the Mississippi [US]; Army of Tennessee [CS]
Estimated Casualties: 12,485 total (US 5,815; CS 6,670)

Description: From the last days of September through October 1863, Gen. Braxton Bragg’s army laid siege to the Union army under Maj. Gen. William Rosecrans at Chattanooga, cutting off its supplies. On October 17, Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant received command of the Western armies;  he moved to reinforce Chattanooga and replaced Rosecrans with Maj. Gen. George Thomas. A new supply line was soon established. Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman arrived with his four divisions in mid-November, and the Federals began offensive operations. On November 23-24, Union forces struck out and captured Orchard Knob and Lookout Mountain. On November 25, Union soldiers assaulted and carried the seemingly impregnable Confederate position on Missionary Ridge. One of the Confederacy’s two major armies was routed. The Federals held Chattanooga, the “Gateway to the Lower South,” which became the supply and logistics base for Sherman’s 1864 Atlanta Campaign.

Result(s): Union victory

Peter and Nancy Danford, both of whom are natives of Ohio. Removing to Grant city, Missouri, Peter Danford was there engaged in teaching school for nine years and in 1878 he came with his family to Owaneco, Christian County, where he again engaged in teaching for several years. In 1888, however, he abandoned educational work and entered the journalistic field, purchasing the Farmers' Journal of Taylorville. He published it for a year and then sold out, turning his attention to the grocery business in Owaneco., Where he remained until 1896. He then bought a paper published in that town and removed the plant to Stonington. He also established another paper at
Mount Auburn, Illinois, but sold it after one year - in 1901. In 1898 he disposed of his paper in Stonington and was again engaged in the grocery business for a time. He is now serving as police magistrate and notary public of Stonington and is well known in public affairs there, being a progressive and enterprising citizen. At the time of the Civil war he proved his loyalty to the government by enlisting in the Union Army, in July, 1861, as a member of Company F Eighteenth Ohio Infantry. He continued in the service until the fall of 1864 and participated in a number of important battles which contributed to the splendid success which ultimately crowned the Union arms.

• Married: 25 NOV 1858 in Morgan Co, OH ¹²

1. SONTINE TYRUS DANFORD b: 15 AUG 1859 in Homer Twp., Morgan Co., OH
2. Charles Maxwell DANFORD b: 1 MAR 1861 in Marion Co., OH
3. MALCOLM MCIVOR DANFORD b: 18 JUN 1864 in MOUNTSVILLE, OH
4. Zenas A. DANFORD b: 11 MAR 1870 in SPRINGFIELD, ILL
5. CARL CLYDE DANFORD b: 11 OCT 1868 in OH
6. JOY TIBBLES DANFORD b: 19 JUL 1872 in Grant City, Union Twp., Worth Co., MO
7. HARRY ALDEN DANFORD b: 17 MAY 1874 in Grant City, Union Twp., Worth Co., MO
8. BERTHA REBECCA DANFORD b: 19 AUG 1876 in Grant City, Union Twp., Worth Co., MO
9. ERCIL (TOBE) AMES DANFORD b: 12 JUN 1881 in IL

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