James Montgomery (soldier)
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James Montgomery (December 22, 1814 – December 6, 1871) was a
Early life and Bleeding Kansas
James Montgomery was born to James and Mary Baldwin Montgomery in Austinburg, Ashtabula County, Ohio, on December 22, 1814.[2] He migrated to Kentucky in 1837 with his parents and eventually taught school there. He married, but his first wife died shortly after the wedding, so he married again to Clarinda Evans.[3] They moved to Pike County, Missouri, in 1852, and then to Jackson County and finally Bates County while awaiting the organization of Kansas for settlement.
In 1854 Montgomery purchased land near present-day Mound City, Kansas, where he became a leader of local Free-state men and was a fervent abolitionist.[4][5] In 1857 he organized and commanded a "Self-Protective Company", using it to order pro-slavery settlers out of the region. Conflict with other pro-slavery elements led territorial governor James W. Denver to dispatch U.S. Army soldiers in to restore order. Montgomery at times cooperated with the abolitionist John Brown and considered a raid to rescue Brown after his capture in Virginia, but snow in Pennsylvania upset his plan.[6]
Civil War
On July 24, 1861, Montgomery was commissioned as colonel of the
Montgomery was authorized to raise a
In June 1863, Montgomery commanded a brigade, including his own 2nd South Carolina and the 3rd Rhode Island Heavy Artillery, in operations along the coast resembling his earlier Jayhawk raids. The most famous of his operations was the
Montgomery commanded a brigade in Florida in 1864 at the
Postbellum
After the war, Montgomery returned to his Linn County, Kansas, farm, where he died on December 6, 1871.[15]
In popular culture
In the 1989 film Glory, Montgomery is portrayed by Cliff DeYoung.
In the episode “The General” of the TV show Timeless he was portrayed by actor Ben Bowen.
References
- ^ "Montgomery, James | Civil War on the Western Border: The Missouri-Kansas Conflict, 1854-1865".
- ^ Clan Montgomery Society International Genealogical Database
- ^ Clan Montgomery Society International Genealogical Database
- ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, "The Era of Peace", Part 43
- ^ Castel, Albert, Civil War Kansas: Reaping the Whirlwind, University Press of Kansas, 1997, page 42
- ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, "The Era of Peace", Part 43
- ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, "The Era of Peace", Part 43
- ^ Dyer, Frederick H., A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion, Part 3, Dyer Publching, 1908, page 1187
- ^ "Kansas Jayhawking Raids into Western Missouri in 1861", Missouri Historical Review, Vol. 54 No. 1, October 1959
- ^ The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series III, Volume III, page 14
- ^ "Shaw's June 12 description in a letter to his wife, Annie". Archived from the original on July 28, 2008. Retrieved 2008-03-03.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link). - ^ ""Montgomery's Raids in Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina", by William Lee Apthorp, Lt. Colonel, 34th United States Colored Infantry, June 1864". Archived from the original on 2009-09-25. Retrieved 2017-08-06..
- ^ The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Vol 81, page 520
- ISBN 978-1-63624-142-5.
- ^ Cutler, William G., History of the State of Kansas, A. T. Andreas, 1883, "The Era of Peace", Part 43
External links
- Shaw's letter about the burning of Darien at the Wayback Machine (archived October 27, 2009)
- Civil War St. Louis website, article about Jayhawking by Castel Archived 2014-03-14 at the Wayback Machine
- Col. James Montgomery from Cutler's History of the State of Kansas
- Clan Montgomery Society International Genealogical Database
- James Montgomery at the Battle of Olustee