James McDonald was a Private in Company G, 2nd Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Union. He was captured at Rogersville Tennessee, November 6, 1863.
While on the way to Richmond, "James McDonald [better known as 'Uncle Jim'] would aggravate the rebels by sympathizing with the Southern Confederacy, and saying he was sorry for the rebel soldiers, but just at that time he was not in circumstances to help them but would see them later. Then he would provoke them by singing:
Abe Lincoln is a clever man;
Jeff Davis is a fool
Abe Lincoln rides on a big white horse,
Jeff Davis rides a mule.
Shove around your grog, boys,
All around the room;
We are the boys that fear no noise,
Although we're far from home."
-Harrison Reed, Company G
First confined at Belle Isle, he died at General Hospital #21, Richmond. His National Archives file does not give a place of burial.
When the Richmond National Cemetery opened in 1866, most of the first burials were reinterments of Union soldiers from other sites in the area. Those reburied included 3,200 from Oakwood Cemetery and 388 from Hollywood Cemetery. They were primarily men who perished while prisoners of war in area military hospitals. 210 Federal dead from the Belle Isle prison camp cemetery were also reinterred there. Pvt. James McDonald likely was one of the 5700 unknown soldiers buried at Richmond National Cemetery.
James McDonald married Malinda Lawson on May 2, 1844, in Campbell County, Tennessee. Their children:
Farazina McDonald Marlow abt. 1844-
Hugh L. McDonald 1859-
While on the way to Richmond, "James McDonald [better known as 'Uncle Jim'] would aggravate the rebels by sympathizing with the Southern Confederacy, and saying he was sorry for the rebel soldiers, but just at that time he was not in circumstances to help them but would see them later. Then he would provoke them by singing:
Abe Lincoln is a clever man;
Jeff Davis is a fool
Abe Lincoln rides on a big white horse,
Jeff Davis rides a mule.
Shove around your grog, boys,
All around the room;
We are the boys that fear no noise,
Although we're far from home."
-Harrison Reed, Company G
First confined at Belle Isle, he died at General Hospital #21, Richmond. His National Archives file does not give a place of burial.
When the Richmond National Cemetery opened in 1866, most of the first burials were reinterments of Union soldiers from other sites in the area. Those reburied included 3,200 from Oakwood Cemetery and 388 from Hollywood Cemetery. They were primarily men who perished while prisoners of war in area military hospitals. 210 Federal dead from the Belle Isle prison camp cemetery were also reinterred there. Pvt. James McDonald likely was one of the 5700 unknown soldiers buried at Richmond National Cemetery.
James McDonald married Malinda Lawson on May 2, 1844, in Campbell County, Tennessee. Their children:
Farazina McDonald Marlow abt. 1844-
Hugh L. McDonald 1859-
James McDonald was a Private in Company G, 2nd Regiment Tennessee Volunteer Infantry, Union. He was captured at Rogersville Tennessee, November 6, 1863.
While on the way to Richmond, "James McDonald [better known as 'Uncle Jim'] would aggravate the rebels by sympathizing with the Southern Confederacy, and saying he was sorry for the rebel soldiers, but just at that time he was not in circumstances to help them but would see them later. Then he would provoke them by singing:
Abe Lincoln is a clever man;
Jeff Davis is a fool
Abe Lincoln rides on a big white horse,
Jeff Davis rides a mule.
Shove around your grog, boys,
All around the room;
We are the boys that fear no noise,
Although we're far from home."
-Harrison Reed, Company G
First confined at Belle Isle, he died at General Hospital #21, Richmond. His National Archives file does not give a place of burial.
When the Richmond National Cemetery opened in 1866, most of the first burials were reinterments of Union soldiers from other sites in the area. Those reburied included 3,200 from Oakwood Cemetery and 388 from Hollywood Cemetery. They were primarily men who perished while prisoners of war in area military hospitals. 210 Federal dead from the Belle Isle prison camp cemetery were also reinterred there. Pvt. James McDonald likely was one of the 5700 unknown soldiers buried at Richmond National Cemetery.
James McDonald married Malinda Lawson on May 2, 1844, in Campbell County, Tennessee. Their children:
Farazina McDonald Marlow abt. 1844-
Hugh L. McDonald 1859-
While on the way to Richmond, "James McDonald [better known as 'Uncle Jim'] would aggravate the rebels by sympathizing with the Southern Confederacy, and saying he was sorry for the rebel soldiers, but just at that time he was not in circumstances to help them but would see them later. Then he would provoke them by singing:
Abe Lincoln is a clever man;
Jeff Davis is a fool
Abe Lincoln rides on a big white horse,
Jeff Davis rides a mule.
Shove around your grog, boys,
All around the room;
We are the boys that fear no noise,
Although we're far from home."
-Harrison Reed, Company G
First confined at Belle Isle, he died at General Hospital #21, Richmond. His National Archives file does not give a place of burial.
When the Richmond National Cemetery opened in 1866, most of the first burials were reinterments of Union soldiers from other sites in the area. Those reburied included 3,200 from Oakwood Cemetery and 388 from Hollywood Cemetery. They were primarily men who perished while prisoners of war in area military hospitals. 210 Federal dead from the Belle Isle prison camp cemetery were also reinterred there. Pvt. James McDonald likely was one of the 5700 unknown soldiers buried at Richmond National Cemetery.
James McDonald married Malinda Lawson on May 2, 1844, in Campbell County, Tennessee. Their children:
Farazina McDonald Marlow abt. 1844-
Hugh L. McDonald 1859-
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