James G. Barnhill was the son of Vachel Bonnie Barnhill and Nancy Haley.
James G. Barnhill married Sarah 'Sallie' B. King in 1850 in Hickman, Tennessee.
They were the parents of eight children.
Private, Baxter's Tennessee Light Artillery,
He served in this battery with his brother Vachel Isiah Barnhill. James was captured after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and sent to the Union prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. He died on Nov. 13, 1864 of typhoid fever and pneumonia,
During the Civil War years of 1862 through 1865, Camp Douglas, originally a Union camp, served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate prisoners of war. During these years, due to the poor conditions at the Camp, the mortality rate for the rebel soldiers was extremely high. Nearly 4,000 of these soldiers were buried in the City Cemetery's potter's field.
Jimmy's family was very revengeful after Jimmy's death in the Union prison camp.
James G. Barnhill was my 3rd great-grandfather.
James G. Barnhill married Sarah 'Sallie' B. King in 1850 in Hickman, Tennessee.
They were the parents of eight children.
Private, Baxter's Tennessee Light Artillery,
He served in this battery with his brother Vachel Isiah Barnhill. James was captured after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and sent to the Union prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. He died on Nov. 13, 1864 of typhoid fever and pneumonia,
During the Civil War years of 1862 through 1865, Camp Douglas, originally a Union camp, served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate prisoners of war. During these years, due to the poor conditions at the Camp, the mortality rate for the rebel soldiers was extremely high. Nearly 4,000 of these soldiers were buried in the City Cemetery's potter's field.
Jimmy's family was very revengeful after Jimmy's death in the Union prison camp.
James G. Barnhill was my 3rd great-grandfather.
James G. Barnhill was the son of Vachel Bonnie Barnhill and Nancy Haley.
James G. Barnhill married Sarah 'Sallie' B. King in 1850 in Hickman, Tennessee.
They were the parents of eight children.
Private, Baxter's Tennessee Light Artillery,
He served in this battery with his brother Vachel Isiah Barnhill. James was captured after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and sent to the Union prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. He died on Nov. 13, 1864 of typhoid fever and pneumonia,
During the Civil War years of 1862 through 1865, Camp Douglas, originally a Union camp, served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate prisoners of war. During these years, due to the poor conditions at the Camp, the mortality rate for the rebel soldiers was extremely high. Nearly 4,000 of these soldiers were buried in the City Cemetery's potter's field.
Jimmy's family was very revengeful after Jimmy's death in the Union prison camp.
James G. Barnhill was my 3rd great-grandfather.
James G. Barnhill married Sarah 'Sallie' B. King in 1850 in Hickman, Tennessee.
They were the parents of eight children.
Private, Baxter's Tennessee Light Artillery,
He served in this battery with his brother Vachel Isiah Barnhill. James was captured after the fall of Atlanta in September 1864 and sent to the Union prison at Camp Douglas, Illinois. He died on Nov. 13, 1864 of typhoid fever and pneumonia,
During the Civil War years of 1862 through 1865, Camp Douglas, originally a Union camp, served as a prisoner of war camp for Confederate prisoners of war. During these years, due to the poor conditions at the Camp, the mortality rate for the rebel soldiers was extremely high. Nearly 4,000 of these soldiers were buried in the City Cemetery's potter's field.
Jimmy's family was very revengeful after Jimmy's death in the Union prison camp.
James G. Barnhill was my 3rd great-grandfather.
Inscription
capt Baxter's Company Tennessee Light Artillery
Gravesite Details
One of 6,000 Confederate soldiers buried here who died as Prisoners of War at Camp Douglas in Chicago.
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