James Jethro Barnes

A farmer's son, in 1860 he was a 20 year old student in Bowdon College living with his parents and 3 younger siblings in Bowdon, Carroll County, GA. He enlisted there on 30 July 1861 and mustered as a Private in Company B, Cobb's Legion Infantry.

He was wounded by a gunshot to his left knee in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore from Frederick, MD in November and paroled there. He was admitted to the CS General Hospital in Petersburg, VA on 4 December and furloughed for 90 days on 19 December 1862. He was back in the hospital, in Richmond, VA on 16 April 1863 and detailed there on 11 May. He was back with his company by June 1864, by then appointed First Sergeant, and was captured at Sailor's Creek, VA on 6 April 1865. He took an oath of allegiance to the United States and was paroled at Newport News, VA on 25 June 1865.

By 1880 and to at least 1900 he was a wholesale produce and corn merchant in Atlanta, GA. He had retired there by 1910.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860, 1880-1910. His gravesite is on Findagrave.

He married Cornelia V Hall (1848-1917) and they had 4 children between 1870 and 1880.

04/10/1840; Henry County, GA

08/05/1919; Atlanta, GA; burial in Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, GA