Blincoe James D 1836

James D Blincoe [7426]

1838-1870

Father Nm: Captain Benjamin Carroll Blincoe [7536] 1809–1859
BIRTH 19 FEBRUARY 1809 Mason, Kentucky
DEATH 27 MAY 1859 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky

Mother Nm: Lydia Beatty Spurr 1813–1889
BIRTH 21 JAN 1813 Fayette, Kentucky
DEATH 03 MAY 1889 Fayette, Kentucky

Marriage Dt: Before August 1861 birth of son Howell H. Blincoe

K comments: Brothers Benjamin W Blincoe and Thomas H Blincoe fought for the Union army on the opposite side.
Spouse comments:Mollie B Austin, b. 1840, Summit, Pike, Mississippi, d. Abt 1913 (Age 73 years)

Children. Howell Hines Blincoe 1861–1927
BIRTH 16 AUGUST 1861 Mississippi
DEATH 5 NOVEMBER 1927

Born 1836

Lexington, Missouri

1860 CENSUS

details

Civil War

1861

• 11 August.Enlisted at Summit, Mississippi and given Rank of 1st Sergeant

1862-1863

• 31 December 1862- 30 April 1863 1st Sergeant Company C Garlands Battalion Missiissipi Cavalry records confirms 3 years service and last paid on 31 December 1862

• 31 August 1863-30 June 1864 A card shows he is on muster 14th Confederate Calvary in this period as a Sergeant then Private (reduced in Rank after April 1864)

  

  • 30 March 1864. During the period above, James writes to Mollie .He says the draft is going on but he doesn’t think he is liable. He is missing his family and hopes to be able to send money soon

  

  • 29 November 1864 New Orleans. Deserted Confederate Army. James swears an oath to the Union Government declaring his Confederate Army details
  • 7 December. James enrolls into the Union Army although no Regiment is assigned and appears not have served that army.

  1865

  • 30 March 1865. Mississippi. Arrested by Col Everett of the 2nd Louisiana Regt.
    Note: The 2nd Louisiana Native Guard Infantry Regiment was a unit of the Union Army during the American Civil War. According to Wikipedia, detachments of the regiment served on an expedition from Fort Pike to Bayou St. Louis from March 28 to March 30, 1865.
    James may have been home already as the 2nd Louisiana patrolled the area. There is a list of items identified belonging to James importantly a completed oath to the Union and a Union Provost Marshall’s pass, presumably so he could get home to his family. This note for the Colonel sums up the situation

  
  Note: the war was very nearly over General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox courthouse one week later on April 9. However, Lee only surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia; it would take 16 additional months for every commander to surrender their armies and for the Civil War to officially end.
  It is known that somehow James was released and made his way home to Mississippi.

  Sources

  1. Ancestry  and BFA database
  2. US National Archives/li>
  3. Blincoe, James D
  4. Blincoe, James D (29)

  After the War

  Death 1870

  The death record states that James who had returned to his home county of Pike Miss. Had died after falling off a mule.

  Notes

  1. Garland’s Mississippi Cavalry Battalion

     This unit was attached to Lt. Col. Christopher C. Wilbourn’s Command, of Lt. Col. George Gnatt’s Cavalry Command, Maj. Gen. Franklin Gardner’s 3d Military District at Port Hudson, LA, Lt. Gen. John C. Pemberton’s Department of Mississippi and East Louisiana, and commanded by Maj. William H. Garland. This organization was not bottled up in Port Hudson, and continued to operate militarily outside of the fortification works. In September 1863, the battalion was redesignated as the 14th Confederate Cavalry Battalion. [Refer to Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Volume XXIV, Part 1 – Reports, page 707; and to Edwin Bearss’ The Vicksburg Campaign, Volume II, pages 230 and 251.]

  Gallery

  The Oath taken by James Blincoe in front of the US Govt Provost Mrshall on 29 November 1864 in New Orleans.