Daniel P. Tyler IV (7 January 1799 – 30 November 1882) was a Union Brigadier-General during the American Civil War.
Biography[]
Daniel Tyler was born in Brooklyn, Connecticut in 1799, the great-grandson of Jonathan Edwards through his mother; his daughter Gertrude would later become the mother of Theodore Roosevelt's wife Edith. He graduated from West Point in 1819, and he resigned his US Army commission in 1834 to become an iron manufacturer. Tyler served as the president of several railroads until the American Civil War broke out in 1861, upon which he volunteered to serve as an aide to Union general Robert Patterson. He became colonel of a Connecticut regiment, but he was mustered out on 11 August 1861 after being blamed for the Union defeat at the First Battle of Bull Run following his defeat at the Battle of Blackburn's Ford. However, he became a Brigadier-General on 13 March 1862 and commanded a brigade at the Siege of Corinth. On 15 September 1862, his division surrendered to Stonewall Jackson at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, and he was relieved from command on 20 November. He resigned on 6 April 1864 and moved to New Jersey before founding the town of Anniston, Alabama and becoming a railroad president there and a landowner in Guadalupe County, Texas. He died while visiting New York City in 1882.
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