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James Herny Reid was born in Ireland.
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James and his family moved to West Virginia.
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James Henry Reid wrote his first letter to his dad. He explained that he had a headache and wanted to lay down to rest. I can tell he is homesick because he says he had just seen his parents a few days before.
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James sent a letter to his parents to ask for cloth to make his uniform.
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James came with 10 dollars and bought a mattress for 7 so he would have one for his barracks. He is low on money so he asks his parents to send him more.
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Field deskJames gets a letter that contains $ 0.50 which he buys a field desk with to write letters to his parents back home.
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He described in a letter than he was so hungry he ate a peice of rotten beef and has been throwing up for the past few days. He didn't get any milk with his dinner because by the time it reaches him it is all gone.
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James recives a package that he needed greatly, His parents had sent him apples and cakes so he could survive. He didnt ever get much to eat because he was near the end of the line.
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James dad told james he was going to have to go into the army.
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James Henry Reid was enrolled into the Virginia Military Institute in the Fall semester of 1862 by his father. He was going to be fighting for the South.
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James sends his parents a letter asking for socks because he gets up tp drill at 5:30 am, and his feet become so raw he can hardly walk.
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James gets a few new pairs of socks that he had needed because his feet were starting to fall apart, and get raw.
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1850 ColtKilled a man with a 1850 Navy colt revolver, James shot the man in the heart and he bled out.
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Combat knifeJames asks his parents for a combat knife, so that if he ran out of ammo he could go hand to hand combat.
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James served the 13th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery, Company A.
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James Henry Reid wrote his last letter but to the last one his parents didnt respond. The railroad cars that they were going to move positions with had broken down and without engines, So they couldn't go anywhere yet.
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Battle Of New MarketHis Squad had to go out into the battle of New Market.
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James hadnt slept in days, He couldnt he was too paranoid. He wasnt the only one other people near him couldnt either.He just layed in their trench.
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James Henry Reid Was wounded at the Battle of New Market. He was shot in the arm.
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James gets into a fight with a cadet who ordered him to carry his bag of cloths for him, James didnt want to so he got angry and started hitting the cadet, He says the other cadets didnt blame him.
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James played the fiddle with his uncle a while before his death. His uncle has taught him how to play it.
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Asoken FarwellPlays the famous civil war song asoken farewell on the fiddle with his uncle.
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Jamres henry died in 1921 circa and was burried at Manassas Cemetery.
