The following from Steven Branting, historian:
He was a chaplain and later a major with the Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. Jameson was court-martialed in early 1865 on charges of failing to deduct the wages of an orderly from his pay, fined $8,000 ($120,000 today) and sentenced to three years of hard labor. Abraham Lincoln pardoned him on March 17, 1865, after William Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist, intervened on his behalf. Jameson had been instrumental in working with “colored” troops.
Among the personal story lines woven into the text of the PBS series The Civil War, were the recollections of Rhode Island soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served with the Second Rhode Island Infantry throughout the conflict. Rhodes knew Jameson and wrote of him in his famed diary on December 24, 1862:
We are in trouble about our new Major and former Chaplain, Rev. Thorndike C. Jameson. Governor Sprague promoted him Major over all the Captains. He is incompetent, and we do not want him with us. I hear that he is to be ordered before a board of officers for examination, and as he probably could not pass, I hope he will resign and leave us in peace. Jameson is not fitted for a soldier in some respects and ought to know it. He is brave, and that is all.
Jameson was reassigned to another regiment and was tasked with the duty of recruiting freed slaves to form an all-Black artillery unit in North Carolina. His efforts led to a full complement of troops enlisting.
He and his wife Lucinda lived near San Francisco in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
He was a chaplain and later a major with the Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. Jameson was court-martialed in early 1865 on charges of failing to deduct the wages of an orderly from his pay, fined $8,000 ($120,000 today) and sentenced to three years of hard labor. Abraham Lincoln pardoned him on March 17, 1865, after William Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist, intervened on his behalf. Jameson had been instrumental in working with “colored” troops.
Among the personal story lines woven into the text of the PBS series The Civil War, were the recollections of Rhode Island soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served with the Second Rhode Island Infantry throughout the conflict. Rhodes knew Jameson and wrote of him in his famed diary on December 24, 1862:
We are in trouble about our new Major and former Chaplain, Rev. Thorndike C. Jameson. Governor Sprague promoted him Major over all the Captains. He is incompetent, and we do not want him with us. I hear that he is to be ordered before a board of officers for examination, and as he probably could not pass, I hope he will resign and leave us in peace. Jameson is not fitted for a soldier in some respects and ought to know it. He is brave, and that is all.
Jameson was reassigned to another regiment and was tasked with the duty of recruiting freed slaves to form an all-Black artillery unit in North Carolina. His efforts led to a full complement of troops enlisting.
He and his wife Lucinda lived near San Francisco in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
The following from Steven Branting, historian:
He was a chaplain and later a major with the Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. Jameson was court-martialed in early 1865 on charges of failing to deduct the wages of an orderly from his pay, fined $8,000 ($120,000 today) and sentenced to three years of hard labor. Abraham Lincoln pardoned him on March 17, 1865, after William Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist, intervened on his behalf. Jameson had been instrumental in working with “colored” troops.
Among the personal story lines woven into the text of the PBS series The Civil War, were the recollections of Rhode Island soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served with the Second Rhode Island Infantry throughout the conflict. Rhodes knew Jameson and wrote of him in his famed diary on December 24, 1862:
We are in trouble about our new Major and former Chaplain, Rev. Thorndike C. Jameson. Governor Sprague promoted him Major over all the Captains. He is incompetent, and we do not want him with us. I hear that he is to be ordered before a board of officers for examination, and as he probably could not pass, I hope he will resign and leave us in peace. Jameson is not fitted for a soldier in some respects and ought to know it. He is brave, and that is all.
Jameson was reassigned to another regiment and was tasked with the duty of recruiting freed slaves to form an all-Black artillery unit in North Carolina. His efforts led to a full complement of troops enlisting.
He and his wife Lucinda lived near San Francisco in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
He was a chaplain and later a major with the Fifth Rhode Island Heavy Artillery in the Civil War. Jameson was court-martialed in early 1865 on charges of failing to deduct the wages of an orderly from his pay, fined $8,000 ($120,000 today) and sentenced to three years of hard labor. Abraham Lincoln pardoned him on March 17, 1865, after William Lloyd Garrison, the noted abolitionist, intervened on his behalf. Jameson had been instrumental in working with “colored” troops.
Among the personal story lines woven into the text of the PBS series The Civil War, were the recollections of Rhode Island soldier Elisha Hunt Rhodes, who served with the Second Rhode Island Infantry throughout the conflict. Rhodes knew Jameson and wrote of him in his famed diary on December 24, 1862:
We are in trouble about our new Major and former Chaplain, Rev. Thorndike C. Jameson. Governor Sprague promoted him Major over all the Captains. He is incompetent, and we do not want him with us. I hear that he is to be ordered before a board of officers for examination, and as he probably could not pass, I hope he will resign and leave us in peace. Jameson is not fitted for a soldier in some respects and ought to know it. He is brave, and that is all.
Jameson was reassigned to another regiment and was tasked with the duty of recruiting freed slaves to form an all-Black artillery unit in North Carolina. His efforts led to a full complement of troops enlisting.
He and his wife Lucinda lived near San Francisco in the late 1860s and early 1870s.
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