General Notes

Private in Co. A, 2nd Kentucky Calvary Federal Army. While on  patrol duty in the  Army of General Sherman on its march from Atlanta To Savannah, Georgia, he was captured by enemy at Vanworth, Georgia. Was imprisoned at Cahaba, Alabama. Paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi on April 21, 1865. A few days after parole he was severly injured in the Sultana Steamer disaster on April 27, 1865, near Memphis, Tennessee. He was badly burned in the fire and explosion that sank the steamboat. He spent the next few months in military hosptals and he was discharge from the Army in August 1865.  He returned to LaRue Co., Kentucky and lived there until 1869. He then moved to the state  of Kansas for 12 years and then to Arizona for 22 years. He was a farmer in the town of Tombstone, at the time for famous gunfighters. The last ten years of his life were spent in Los Angeles, California in an old Soldiers home. James filed for a pension in December of 1885. He died of stomach cancer on June 04, 1914 in the veterans home and is buried in Los Angeles. He died with no money or heirs.