Congratulations. There's some interesting material on Colonel Edward Daniels in some of the local histories of Wisconsin, where he had been the state geologist. He raised the unit in Fond du Lac county, in the Ripon area, where the Republican party started. Daniels also showed up escorting free state settlers into Kansas in the 1850s. There are also mentions of his persistent efforts to win "the hearts and minds" of people in southeast Missouri.