Wonderful Civil War CDV Chaplain Horace James 25th MA Infantry

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Wonderful Civil War CDV Chaplain Horace James 25th MA Infantry:
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HORACE JAMES CHAPLAIN 25THMA

Chaplain of the 25th MAInfantry 10/21/61-2/18/64

Captain and Asst. Quarter Master ofU. S. Volunteers 2/18/64

Superintendent of Negro Affairs,January 1863

Great CDV image of Clergyman HoraceJames who enlisted at the age of 43. Anative of Milford, Massachusetts, Rev. James graduated from Yale College in1840, and studied theology at Yale and Andover. James was called from Wrentham,MA to be the pastor of Worcester\'s Old South Church in 1852. He marriedHelen Leavitt, of Boston, and they toured Europe for five months in 1858. Jameswas the Secretary of the Worcester Temperance League, promoting\" totalabstinence from the use of intoxicating liquors as a beverage,\" andSecretary of the Worcester Lyceum and Library Association and the NaturalHistory Society. James resigned from his pastorate to become chaplain ofthe 25th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteers, entering the service Oct. 28, 1861,and mustering out Apr. 27, 1864; later he became assistant quartermaster of theMassachusetts Volunteers. He was afterward pastor of the First CongregationalChurch of Lowell, and an editor and proprietor of TheCongregationalist.

During the New Bern campaign he workedunder Vincent Colyer (federally appointed superintendent of the poor) assistingblack and white refugees. He establishedevening schools for blacks in New Bern, gave them religious instruction, andsolicited food and clothing for them.

He established refugee camps forfreedmen and in 1863 established the first camp at Roanoke Island, which servedas a model for future black colonies.

He was mustered out 1/8/66. Very important CDV. Extensive researchincluded with purchase. Image is authenticated from the research provided. There are online images on Chaplain Horace James confirming this image.

Eastern North Carolina and for finding them employment. Healso issued rations, medicine, and clothing to destitute freedmen withinfederal lines, who had been officially liberated by the EmancipationProclamation issued in January 1863, and he had to supervise the contracts offormer slaves with whites. Assisted by New England philanthropic institutions,he established many schools for blacks in Union-held North Carolina. He alsogave aid to white refugees.

Eastern districtand to lend his experience in dealing with the freedmen. Whittlesey alsoappointed him financial agent for the bureau in North Carolina.

Eastern district until December 1865, when Howard finally accepted hisresignation. After leaving the Freedmen\'s Bureau he entered into a plantationand labor scheme inPitt County. In the enterprise he was the partner of Whittlesey andWinthrop Tappan, a neighbor of Whittlesey in the state of Maine. The planconceived by Whittlesey and Tappan and presented to James called for the twomen from Maine to rent two plantations in Pitt County from the owner, WilliamGrimes. The plantations, named Avon and Yankee Hall, were located about twelvemiles from Washington on opposite sides of the Tar River. James received moneyfor expenses and had complete charge of the farms, including hiring andsupervising freedmen as laborers and purchasing supplies. On each of the siteshe established schools and churches for the freedmen. In overseeing thelaborers employed on the plantations, James acted as a civilian agent for theFreedmen\'s Bureau; he received no salary, but if the project produced a profithe was to share in it equally with his partners.

Thanksgiving Day, November28, 1846(1847).