Vignette bust view of Davis E. James in a dark frockcoat.

Image has good contrast and clarity. Paper and mount are also good.

Reverse has a photographer’s imprint for J. B. CLARK…CARDINGTON, OHIO. Bottom is signed in period ink “COMPLIMENTS OF D. E. JAMES.”

Davis E. James was born in 1835.

He enlisted as a private in Company G, 81^st Ohio Infantry on November 21, 1861. He was promoted to commissary sergeant on September 1, 1862 but was reduced to private on May 30, 1864. He was mustered out at Nashville, Tennessee on November 20, 1864.

The 81st Ohio was organized in August of 1861 and served in the Department of Tennessee. The regiment saw action at Shiloh, Corinth, Resaca, Rome, Dallas, Atlanta and Bentonville.

During their service the regiment lost 4 officers and 218 killed, died of wounds and disease. Numerous others were wounded but recovered.

All that is known of his poet-war life is that he married in 1866 and died in Mount Gilead, Ohio in 1908. He is buried there in Rivercliff Cemetery.  [ad]

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