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Civil War Soldiers - Barnes
| Barnes, James, brigadier-general, was born in Boston,
Mass., in 1806, and graduated at West Point in 1829. He resigned at
the end of seven years' service, having attained the rank of first
lieutenant in the 4th artillery, and was then until 1857 a railroad
engineer and builder of railroads. Returning to service in the army at
the outbreak of the Civil war, he was colonel of the 18th Mass.
volunteers from July 26, 1861, to Nov. 29, 1862, when he was promoted
brigadier-general. He took part in the engagements of Fredericksburg,
Chancellorsville, and the skirmishes of Aldie and Upperville, and the
battle of Gettysburg, where he commanded a division, and was severely
wounded. He was afterwards on court-martial duty in command of various
posts until the close of the war, and on March 13, 1865, he was
brevetted major-general of volunteers. He was mustered out of the
service in Jan., 1866, and died at Springfield, Mass., Feb. 12, 1869,
having never fully recovered from wounds and exposure.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Barnes, Joseph K., brigadier-general, U.S. Army, and
surgeon-general, U. S. A., was born in Philadelphia, July 21, 1817.
Being obliged by ill health to give up the studies which he had begun
at Harvard, he left college, and later began his surgical studies
under Surgeon- General Harris, U. S. A., and in 1838 was graduated
from the medical department of the University of Pennsylvania. After
two years' practice in Philadelphia he was appointed assistant surgeon
in the army and assigned to duty at West Point, where he remained a
year, and was then transferred to Florida, spending two years there
with Gen. Harney's expedition against the Seminoles. He then served
four years at Fort Jessup, La., and subsequently saw active service
throughout the Mexican war, as chief medical officer in the cavalry
brigade. He was assigned to duty at West Point in 1854, spent several
years there, and at the beginning of the Civil war was called to duty
at Washington. He was assigned to duty in the office of the
surgeon-general in 1861, was appointed two years later medical
inspector with the rank of colonel, and in Sept., 1863, was promoted
to fill a vacancy in the surgeon-general's office, with the rank of
brigadier- general. In 1865 he was brevetted major-general, U. S. A.
After the war he did much to elevate the standard of the medical
department, and was influential in having established the army medical
museum and the library of the surgeon-general's office. He was present
at the death-bed of President Lincoln, attended Secretary Seward when
he was shot, and was physician to President Garfield during his long
confinement. He died in Washington, April 5, 1883.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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