Comments on: #82b – Capt. James H. Waters http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/82b-capt-james-h-waters/ A Journal of the Digitization of a Civil War Battle Tue, 14 May 2013 19:21:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cenantua http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/82b-capt-james-h-waters/#comment-4050 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 18:51:03 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=2807#comment-4050 I should have also mentioned, Waters’ company was supposed to be an artillery unit, but became one of several that never got their guns. They were front and center at the Falling Waters fight a few weeks before BR, but as infantry.

Don’t despair over the biog. info. It will all fall into place. I just like pushing Valley stuff your way when I get a chance.

]]> By: Harry Smeltzer http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/82b-capt-james-h-waters/#comment-4040 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:46:33 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=2807#comment-4040 Thanks for the background, Robert. I’m starting to despair of ever getting all this biographical info into posts. I’ll just keep plugging away.

]]> By: Robert Moore http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/82b-capt-james-h-waters/#comment-4034 Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:33:03 +0000 http://bullrunnings.wordpress.com/?p=2807#comment-4034 Interesting sidenote to this… Waters was originally born in Sharptown, N.J. in 1828, and educated in Philadelphia. A carriage painter by profession, he moved to Staunton in 1848. He was promoted to the commisary for the Stonewall Brigade in June 1862. Also served as commissary for Early’s and Gordon’s divisions, 1864-65. He was among those paroled at Appomattox. After the war, he served as the Staunton Chief of Police (1876-1900) and was a member of the Stonewall Jackson Camp, No. 25, UCV. He died May 13, 1913 and was buried in Thornrose Cemetery, Staunton.

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