James M. Billings
James M. Billings was born around 1817 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He married Jerusha C. Cutting in Weston, Massachusetts, on April 4, 1837, and their daughter Henrietta was born around 1840. He worked as a farm laborer and stable keeper, and in 1860, he owned $100 of personal property. He enlisted in the Union army on October 7, 1861, and mustered in as a private in Company E of the 26th Massachusetts Infantry on October 18, 1861. According to his military service records, he was 5 feet, 6 inches tall, with auburn hair and blue eyes. He army stationed the men in Mississippi and Alabama. Billings fell ill around December 1862, and according to one witness, he “graduly fayled & was sinking lower and lower.” He died of “febris typhus” in New Orleans on February 3, 1863.
DATABASE CONTENT
| (410) | Billings, James M. | 1817 | 1863-02-03 |
- Conflict Side: Union
- Role: Soldier
- Rank in: Private
- Rank out: Private
- Rank highest: Private
- Gender: Male
- Race: White
Documents - Records: 6
- (5051) [writer] ~ James M. Billings to Brother, 18 October 1861
- (5052) [writer] ~ James M. Billings to Jerusha C. Billings, 20 December 1861
- (5053) [writer] ~ James M. Billings to Henrietta Billings, 9 November 1861
- (5054) [writer] ~ James M. Billings to (?) Bartlett, 23 February 1862
- (5055) [writer] ~ James M. Billings to Henrietta Billings, 3 March 1862
- (5056) [associated with] ~ Charles Morse to Jerusha C. Billings, 20 April 1863
People - Records: 3
Places - Records: 2
Regiments - Records: 1
- (20) [enlisted] [E] ~ 26th Massachusetts Infantry
SOURCES
1850 and 1860 United States Federal Censuses, available from Ancestry.com; Military Service Records for James M. Billings, available from Fold3.com; Pension Record for James M. Billings, available from Fold3.com; Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865, available from Ancestry.com.
