John N.James
Regiment Name: 2nd Missouri Light Artillery - Side: Union - Company: L - Soldier's Rank In: private - Soldier's Rank Out: private

UNION MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS
2nd Regiment, Missouri Light Artillery

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., as 1st Regiment, Missouri Artillery, U. S. Reserve Corps, September 16 to November 6, 1861. Designation changed to 2nd Missouri Artillery November 20, 1861, and assigned to duty in forts about St. Louis till September, 1863. Consolidated to a Battalion of 5 Companies September 29, 1863. Landgraeber's Battery, Horse Artillery, assigned as Company "F," September 30, 1863. Companies "C" and "D" form new Company "A." Company "B" retained its organization. Companies "I" and "H" form new Company "C." Companies "A," "F," "G" and "K" form new Company "D." Companies "E," "L" and "M" form new Company "E." Six new Batteries organized as follows: "G" at St. Louis November 15, 1863. "H" at Springfield, Mo., December 4, 1863. "I" at Springfield, Mo., December 29, 1863. "K" at Springfield, Mo., January 14, 1864. "L" at Sedalia, Mo., January 20, 1864 (formerly 1st Battery, Missouri State Militia), "M" at St. Louis February 15, 1864. (See the several Batteries for history.)

UNION MISSOURI VOLUNTEERS.
BATTERY "L" 2nd REGIMENT LIGHT ARTILLERY.

Organized at St. Louis, Mo., January, 1862. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to September, 1862. District of Rolla, Dept. of Missouri, to February, 1863. District of St. Louis, Mo., Dept. of Missouri, to September, 1863.

SERVICE.-Duty in District of St. Louis till September, 1862. At Houston July, 1862. Action at Mountain Store, Big Piney, July 25, 1862. At Hartsville, District of Rolla, Mo., till July, 1863, and at St. Louis, Mo., till September, 1863. Scout in Wayne, Stoddard and Dunklin Counties August 20-27, 1862. Little River Bridge August 31, 1862 (Detachment). Hartsville, Wood's Fork, January 11, 1863. Transferred to new Battery "E" September 29, 1863. Reorganized at Sedalia, Mo., January 20, 1864. Attached to District of St. Louis, Mo., and Central District of Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to April, 1865. District of North Missouri, Dept. of Missouri, to June, 1865. District of the Plains, Dept. of Missouri, to November, 1865.
CIVIL SOLDIERS AND SAILORS SYSTEM, Washington, D.C., researched by Richard Parker, March 2010

Based on his reported age of 25 at the time of his enlistment in the Union Army on January 5, 1864, the year of his birth was most likely 1839.
Contributor: James Family Archives (50130457)

IIn a sworn affidavit signed by Clarinda James, the wife of John N. James, in Jackson County, Missouri obtained from the National Archives concerning the veteran's pension application of James W. James, Clarinda's brother-in-law, dated June 23, 1885, the following statement is made, "She [meaning Clarinda] further states that she has not lived near him [James W. James] all the time but has been in correspondence with him all the time that her husband [John N. James], now dead, was his brother and belonged to the same battery with him." This sworn affidavit signed by Clarinda James proves that her husband John N. James died before June 23, 1885, contrary to the previously reported date of John's death of 1888.
Contributor: James Family Archives (50130457)