Confederate Brigadier General Daniel Harris Reynolds, a descendant of Knox County’s earliest pioneers, was born three miles west of Centerburg in 1832. He attended Ohio Wesleyan University in Delaware, where he became a close friend of Otho Strahl, another Ohio-born Confederate general. Reynolds taught school in Ohio before studying law in Iowa and then Tennessee. After being admitted to the bar in 1858, he established a law practice in Chicot County, Arkansas. An advocate of secession, he chose to serve the Confederate States of America in his adopted state of Arkansas at the start of the Civil War and raised a cavalry company known as the Chicot Rangers. As a captain, he first saw action in August 1861 at Wilson’s Creek in Missouri, where he was injured in a fall from his horse but remained in the fight. He received steady promotions within the Confederate Army and attained the rank of brigadier general in 1864. After distinguished service throughout the war, he suffered a wound at Bentonville, North Carolina, that required the amputation of his leg in the war’s last major battle. Reynolds then returned to Arkansas to reestablish his law practice, served a term in the Arkansas legislature, died in 1902, and was buried in Lake Village, Arkansas.