Estimated birth date from age and date of death.
James was originally buried in Section P, Lot 84, on Oct. 5, 1889, according to cemetery records.
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pa.), Saturday, October 5, 1889, p. 6, col. 2:
"Middletown Items.
Mr. James Campbell, of Middletown, died on Wednesday of dropsy, in his 48th year."
James Campbell served as a private in Co. C of the 7th Pa. Reserve Corps (the 36th Pa. Vol. Inf.) from May 27, 1861 until August 18, 1863, when he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate.
He later enlisted for three years and served in Company C of the 9th Pa. Cav., serving from August 31, 1864, until demobilization on June 20, 1865. This places him in the same unit as James Porter Campbell, also of Middletown.
The following was submitted by Dennis Brandt ((47232334):
"The son of Elizabeth (Styles) Campbell and stepson of George Koch, in 1860 he was a boatman living in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, it is supposed that he served two terms of service:
1. For certain, he enlisted at the oddly understated age of nineteen in Lebanon May 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. C, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the left foot either on the evening of September 16 or the early morning hours of September 17, 1862. during the battle of Antietam. The bullet entered the outside of the foot and on the way through fractured the arch and portions of the tarsal bones. On September 22, 1862, he was admitted to U.S. Hospital No. 1 at Frederick, Maryland, and was done with active duty. He was court-martialed (no general court-martial record was found), reason not stated in his compiled military service records, and sentenced to forfeit $5.00, a minor punishment that suggests the infraction had been a minor one. He was forwarded to the convalescent camp at Alexandria, Virginia, and there discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date August 18, 1863.
2. If his tombstone is to be believed, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 31, 1864, as a private with Co. C, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa), and honorably discharged by general order May 29, 1865. He made no mention of this service in his pension file, and it is not listed in the pension index. Indeed, the tombstone contains the only reference to this alleged second service so far located, which gives some question as to its authenticity as he had every reason to include it during his pension process.
While at Alexandria, Virginia, during the war, he had met Elizabeth Kline, and they met again eight years later in Columbia, Lancaster County. He popped the question that very day, suggesting that their first encounter had been something more than casual. They married February 11, 1872. (Elizabeth also said 1861 which is almost certainly wrong). The only child found was Edith L. (08/??/79). In 1880, he was living with his family in Middletown where he worked at various times as a laborer and operated a restaurant and where he died reportedly from dropsy."
James was originally buried in Section P, Lot 84, on Oct. 5, 1889, according to cemetery records.
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pa.), Saturday, October 5, 1889, p. 6, col. 2:
"Middletown Items.
Mr. James Campbell, of Middletown, died on Wednesday of dropsy, in his 48th year."
James Campbell served as a private in Co. C of the 7th Pa. Reserve Corps (the 36th Pa. Vol. Inf.) from May 27, 1861 until August 18, 1863, when he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate.
He later enlisted for three years and served in Company C of the 9th Pa. Cav., serving from August 31, 1864, until demobilization on June 20, 1865. This places him in the same unit as James Porter Campbell, also of Middletown.
The following was submitted by Dennis Brandt ((47232334):
"The son of Elizabeth (Styles) Campbell and stepson of George Koch, in 1860 he was a boatman living in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, it is supposed that he served two terms of service:
1. For certain, he enlisted at the oddly understated age of nineteen in Lebanon May 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. C, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the left foot either on the evening of September 16 or the early morning hours of September 17, 1862. during the battle of Antietam. The bullet entered the outside of the foot and on the way through fractured the arch and portions of the tarsal bones. On September 22, 1862, he was admitted to U.S. Hospital No. 1 at Frederick, Maryland, and was done with active duty. He was court-martialed (no general court-martial record was found), reason not stated in his compiled military service records, and sentenced to forfeit $5.00, a minor punishment that suggests the infraction had been a minor one. He was forwarded to the convalescent camp at Alexandria, Virginia, and there discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date August 18, 1863.
2. If his tombstone is to be believed, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 31, 1864, as a private with Co. C, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa), and honorably discharged by general order May 29, 1865. He made no mention of this service in his pension file, and it is not listed in the pension index. Indeed, the tombstone contains the only reference to this alleged second service so far located, which gives some question as to its authenticity as he had every reason to include it during his pension process.
While at Alexandria, Virginia, during the war, he had met Elizabeth Kline, and they met again eight years later in Columbia, Lancaster County. He popped the question that very day, suggesting that their first encounter had been something more than casual. They married February 11, 1872. (Elizabeth also said 1861 which is almost certainly wrong). The only child found was Edith L. (08/??/79). In 1880, he was living with his family in Middletown where he worked at various times as a laborer and operated a restaurant and where he died reportedly from dropsy."
Estimated birth date from age and date of death.
James was originally buried in Section P, Lot 84, on Oct. 5, 1889, according to cemetery records.
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pa.), Saturday, October 5, 1889, p. 6, col. 2:
"Middletown Items.
Mr. James Campbell, of Middletown, died on Wednesday of dropsy, in his 48th year."
James Campbell served as a private in Co. C of the 7th Pa. Reserve Corps (the 36th Pa. Vol. Inf.) from May 27, 1861 until August 18, 1863, when he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate.
He later enlisted for three years and served in Company C of the 9th Pa. Cav., serving from August 31, 1864, until demobilization on June 20, 1865. This places him in the same unit as James Porter Campbell, also of Middletown.
The following was submitted by Dennis Brandt ((47232334):
"The son of Elizabeth (Styles) Campbell and stepson of George Koch, in 1860 he was a boatman living in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, it is supposed that he served two terms of service:
1. For certain, he enlisted at the oddly understated age of nineteen in Lebanon May 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. C, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the left foot either on the evening of September 16 or the early morning hours of September 17, 1862. during the battle of Antietam. The bullet entered the outside of the foot and on the way through fractured the arch and portions of the tarsal bones. On September 22, 1862, he was admitted to U.S. Hospital No. 1 at Frederick, Maryland, and was done with active duty. He was court-martialed (no general court-martial record was found), reason not stated in his compiled military service records, and sentenced to forfeit $5.00, a minor punishment that suggests the infraction had been a minor one. He was forwarded to the convalescent camp at Alexandria, Virginia, and there discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date August 18, 1863.
2. If his tombstone is to be believed, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 31, 1864, as a private with Co. C, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa), and honorably discharged by general order May 29, 1865. He made no mention of this service in his pension file, and it is not listed in the pension index. Indeed, the tombstone contains the only reference to this alleged second service so far located, which gives some question as to its authenticity as he had every reason to include it during his pension process.
While at Alexandria, Virginia, during the war, he had met Elizabeth Kline, and they met again eight years later in Columbia, Lancaster County. He popped the question that very day, suggesting that their first encounter had been something more than casual. They married February 11, 1872. (Elizabeth also said 1861 which is almost certainly wrong). The only child found was Edith L. (08/??/79). In 1880, he was living with his family in Middletown where he worked at various times as a laborer and operated a restaurant and where he died reportedly from dropsy."
James was originally buried in Section P, Lot 84, on Oct. 5, 1889, according to cemetery records.
Harrisburg Telegraph (Harrisburg, Pa.), Saturday, October 5, 1889, p. 6, col. 2:
"Middletown Items.
Mr. James Campbell, of Middletown, died on Wednesday of dropsy, in his 48th year."
James Campbell served as a private in Co. C of the 7th Pa. Reserve Corps (the 36th Pa. Vol. Inf.) from May 27, 1861 until August 18, 1863, when he was discharged on a surgeon's certificate.
He later enlisted for three years and served in Company C of the 9th Pa. Cav., serving from August 31, 1864, until demobilization on June 20, 1865. This places him in the same unit as James Porter Campbell, also of Middletown.
The following was submitted by Dennis Brandt ((47232334):
"The son of Elizabeth (Styles) Campbell and stepson of George Koch, in 1860 he was a boatman living in Middletown, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. He stood 5' 5" tall and had dark hair and dark eyes.
A Civil War veteran, it is supposed that he served two terms of service:
1. For certain, he enlisted at the oddly understated age of nineteen in Lebanon May 27, 1861, and mustered into federal service at Washington DC July 27 as a private with Co. C, 7th Pennsylvania Reserves (36th Pennsylvania Infantry). He was shot in the left foot either on the evening of September 16 or the early morning hours of September 17, 1862. during the battle of Antietam. The bullet entered the outside of the foot and on the way through fractured the arch and portions of the tarsal bones. On September 22, 1862, he was admitted to U.S. Hospital No. 1 at Frederick, Maryland, and was done with active duty. He was court-martialed (no general court-martial record was found), reason not stated in his compiled military service records, and sentenced to forfeit $5.00, a minor punishment that suggests the infraction had been a minor one. He was forwarded to the convalescent camp at Alexandria, Virginia, and there discharged the service by surgeon's certificate to date August 18, 1863.
2. If his tombstone is to be believed, he enlisted at the stated age of twenty-three and mustered into federal service at Harrisburg August 31, 1864, as a private with Co. C, 9th Pennsylvania Cavalry (92nd Pa), and honorably discharged by general order May 29, 1865. He made no mention of this service in his pension file, and it is not listed in the pension index. Indeed, the tombstone contains the only reference to this alleged second service so far located, which gives some question as to its authenticity as he had every reason to include it during his pension process.
While at Alexandria, Virginia, during the war, he had met Elizabeth Kline, and they met again eight years later in Columbia, Lancaster County. He popped the question that very day, suggesting that their first encounter had been something more than casual. They married February 11, 1872. (Elizabeth also said 1861 which is almost certainly wrong). The only child found was Edith L. (08/??/79). In 1880, he was living with his family in Middletown where he worked at various times as a laborer and operated a restaurant and where he died reportedly from dropsy."
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James
Campbell
Died Oct. 2, 1889
Aged
47 y. 3 m. 2d
Co. C 7th Pa Reser.
Co. C 9 P. V. Cav
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