CIVIL WAR SOLDIER: Private in Company C, 38th Massachusetts Volunteers Regiment. In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s offensive against Vicksburg, James' unit was assigned to Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s army that moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. On May 27, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege which lasted for 48 days. During this siege, James contracted a disease and died three months later at St. James Hospital in New Orleans.
CIVIL WAR SOLDIER: Private in Company C, 38th Massachusetts Volunteers Regiment. In cooperation with Maj. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s offensive against Vicksburg, James' unit was assigned to Union Maj. Gen. Nathaniel P. Banks’s army that moved against the Confederate stronghold at Port Hudson on the Mississippi River. On May 27, after their frontal assaults were repulsed, the Federals settled into a siege which lasted for 48 days. During this siege, James contracted a disease and died three months later at St. James Hospital in New Orleans.
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