James Reeves Barrow, Jr.

A Baptist minister's son, in 1860 he was a 16 year old student living with his parents and brother William 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 leg in action at Crampton's Gap on South Mountain on 14 September 1862 and captured.

He was treated at the US 6th Army Corps field hospital in Burkittsville, MD where his leg was amputated, then admitted to the US Army General Hospital at Camp A in Frederick, MD on 16 November. He was sent to Fort McHenry in Baltimore on 28 November for exchange and was in a hospital in Petersburg, VA by 4 December. He was furloughed home for 90 days on 19 December 1862. He remained on the rolls of his company for pay and allowances to at least February 1864, but did not rejoin them in the field due to disability.

He returned to Bowdon and by 1870 was a retail dry goods merchant there. He died young, of tuberculosis, age 35.

His service from his Compiled Service Records,1 online from fold3. Personal details from family genealogists and the US Census of 1860 & 1870. His gravesite is on Findagrave. His picture from a faded and retouched photograph shared to the FamilySearch database by Marilyn Clement.

He married Martha S "Mattie" Holmes (1843-1872) in Bowdon in December 1865 and they had 3 children; Mattie died shortly after birthing their third, a son, who also died, a month later. Only his oldest, John William (1866-1951), survived him.

10/03/1844; Bowdon, GA

07/11/1880; Bowdon, GA; burial in Bowdon Baptist Cemetery, Bowdon, GA