His full name is "John Daniel Nelson" and he was born, May 5, 1825 in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He passed away, January 4, 1918 and is buried in Westhills Cemetery in Dalton (Whitfield County), Georgia. Here is a website that has a picture of my GGG Grandfather's grave stone: "http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/VG/00/00/13/38/82/0000133882/". This has been a real interesting search. I have hit wall after wall. My GGG Grandfather was a Blacksmith/Gunsmith, by trade, before, during and after the war. He was the maker of the "Nelson Rifle" of which was supposedly the most accurate rifle of that time and it was used extensively by the CSA. I know that, from family records, my GGG Grandfather wished for the war to end and everything to return to "normal" and peace was restored. I am trying to trace my family history as far back as I can go. I want to do this for my Grandfather, who is getting up in age (he's 85). My Grandfather remembers that when he was a child and speaking with his Grandfather (John Daniel Nelson's son) about John Daniel Nelson being a "Captain" in the Confederate Army. I have a partial Pension Record, but there is some confusing information on there. It states that he was home sick when his command surrendered in 1865. It states that his home was not far from where his command surrendered (as it states in his Pension Record, his command surrendered at Kingston, Georgia in Bartow County, now that's not far from his home in Ball Ground, Cherokee County). Well, if this is true, then he wouldn't have been a part of the 4th GA, as it was in the Virginia Campaign. Well, with his home in Cherokee County, Georgia, that's a little bit more than "not far from my home". I'm wandering if he was something other than a "Surgeon", given he was a gunsmith and made rifles for the Confederate Army? I have tried to look up the history of the 4th GA. Even on the National Park's webpage for "Civil War Soldiers and Sailors" lists my GGG Grandfather as the Surgeon of the 4th GA Inf. But on his Pension Record, what I can decipher though, he was in Company F (it looks like it says) and he enlisted in November of 1863 in Cherokee County, Georgia in a Colonel S's (something beginning with an S) Brigade. His enlistment date is shown as November 1863 until May 5, 1865 when he was paroled. It also states that he left (he was sick) his command in "Ball Ground" in Cherokee County, shortly before it surrendered in 1865. This why I'm so confused. All of the information I have isn't adding up.