Reeder, James S.

Posted By: Jane Howard
Date: 28 September 2004

County of Douglas, Illinois - Historical & Biographical - (with outline sketch of the northwest territory and of the state of Illinois) - Chicago, 1884

Douglas County- Bourbon Township

James S. REEDER was born March 4, 1840, in Darke County, Ohio, and came with his parents in 1856 to this locality, where he engaged in farming. He enlisted August, 1862, in Company G, Seventy-ninth Illinois Infantry, and served three years. At the battle of Stone River, December 31, 1862, he was wounded and taken prisoner; after being in the enemy's lines twenty-seven days, he was exchanged, and participated in the battles of Liberty Gap and Chickamauga; at the latter, September 19, 1863, he was captured and taken to Richmond Prison, thence to Andersonville, Charleston, S.C., and Florence, making seventeen months in all spent in prison. At the close of the war he returned and engaged in farming, now owning eighty acres. He was married December 2, 1865, to Mary M. Kelly, who was born in Winchester, Ind.; they have four children, three sons and one daughter.

Please note that this is not my family - I just posted this information as a courtesy to those who might be related to the subject of the sketch.

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