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- 1860 Lee Co., VA Census
Jonesville P.O.
725/746 Baxter Simpkins 32 M Farmer $119 (personal) Montgumry Co., VA
Lusinda 32 F Housekeeper Botatot Co., VA
Luticia A. 8 F Montgumry Co., VA
Jas. A. Haley 27 M Farmer $4 (personal) Pulaskey Co., VA
Eliza J. 26 F Housekeeper Montgumry Co., VA
Emily F. 4 F Floyd Co., VA
Alonzo A. 3 M Floyd Co., VA
Mariam E. 8/12 F Lee Co., VA
James A. Haley enlisted as a private in Co. B of Capt. Benjamin F. Poteet's Co. 64 Regt. Virginia Volunteers at Lee Co. on 10 April 1862 for a period of three years (enrolled by Major Thompson). This unit was also referred to as Slemp's Regt. Virginia Infantry (James was recorded as a private under this division at Saltville on 30 June 1862, serving for a period of three years and enrolled by Lt. Col. H. C. Slemp).
On 9 September 1863, James A. Haley was captured at Cumberland Gap, TN. He was taken to the Military Prison at Louisville, KY. On 24 September 1863, he was transferred to Camp Douglas, Chicago, IL, arriving two days later. James died at Camp Douglas on 18 October 1864 of acute diarrhea (date of death is also reported as 27 October 1864 in service records). He was buried in grave 110, block two of the Chicago City Cemetery.
In 1867, the Chicago City Cemetery was closed, and 4200 known (along with about 1800 unknown) casualties of Camp Douglas were relocated to the Oak Woods Cemetery in Chicago. In a mass grave known as "The Confederate Mound," soldiers were buried in cocentric circular trenches. In the center of this pattern, a 46-foot tall monument was dedicated on Memorial Day, 30 May 1895.
James A. Haley and family lived with the family of Baxter and Lucinda (Showalter) Simpkins in the 1860 Lee Co. Census.
Letter from James A. Haley to his brother, Joseph T. Haley
June the 7th 1863
Camp Holston Scot County Virginia
Dear Brother & Sister
I Seat myself this morning to drop you a few lines to inform you as that I am well at this time hoping these few lines may find you enjoying the Same blessing well, To, I would be very glad if peace was made So that I could be at home with you all we have all stuck together along time but alas this War has parted us from each other it has cald me away from my Dear family and all my Dear relations but one he is with me yet it has Seperated me from all that I hold Dear. & if it was not for the hope that to obtain of geting home again I would just as Soon be Dead as alive for my life is a perfect drag to from the fact that I have to be away from home and friends and be cursed by these big headed up Starts of the Country and lay on the ground in the rain & mud when I have got a good bed at home and eat bread & meet all the time when if I was at home I could get better if this things wouldent give a man the blues what would and there is another thing I dont get any thing for all this I am geting. So tired of it that I go out to myself some times and take a harty cry but it all does no good, if I had it I would give the wealth of Lee County if I was at home and could stay there, Some days I get So bewildered that Start off Some where and I dont' know where and the first thing I know I walk up to a guard and he sends me back Oh that I was as free as I once was it is useless for me to try as to describe my dis satisfaction of for tounge cannot tell any thing about my feelings in regard to it well, To I wish you would come up and see us it would only take you one day to come and one to go back I will bring my few disinteresting lines to a close by saying unto you that I want you all to write to me often you have a better chance to write than I do So nothing more at this time I am Still you affectionate Brother intill Death give my love to all let all of the folks see this letter James A. Haley
To Joseph T. Haley Write Soon
Military Records of Individual Civil War Soldiers
Name: James A Haley
Enlistment Date: 10 April 1862
Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE
Side Served: Confederacy
State Served: Virginia
Unit Numbers: 770 770 825 825
Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 10 April 1862
Enlisted in Company B, 21st Infantry Battn Regiment Virginia on 10 April 1862.
Transferred Company B, 21st Infantry Battn Regiment Virginia on 01 December 1862
Transfered in Company B, 64th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 01 December 1862.
POW on 09 September 1863 at Cumberland Gap, TN
Confined on 24 September 1863 at Camp Douglas, IL
Died of disease while a POW Company B, 64th Infantry Regiment Virginia on 18 October 1864 in Camp Douglas, IL
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