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CONFEDERATE VETERAN, VOL.XV , November,
1907, page 493.
Rev. A. A. JAMES was born July 26,
1824, in Yorkville, S.C., where he attended the schools of the place
until 1844, when he went to the Ebenezer Academy and prepared for
college. Under the instruction of Rev. P.E. BISHOP, he entered the
junior class of Davidson College, N.C, in 1846 and graduated in 1848,
taking the first honor in his class. He entered the Theological Seminary
in Columbia in Oct., 1848, and graduated in 1851, going directly to his
present pastoral charge. When the War Between the States began, the 18th
South Carolina Volunteers were organized with four companies from Union,
two from Spartanburg, two from York, one from Anderson, one from
Darlington, numbered one thousand men. The colonel, GADBERRY, would not
appoint a chaplain, but submitted the appointment to a vote of the
regiment and A.A. JAMES was elected. He reported immediately for duty
and continued to hold services and minister to the sick and wound! ed
until the close of the war. Then returning to his pastoral charge, he
has preached regularly to the present time.
[ The foregoing report comes from MISS
ANNA C. HAMES, Secretary JOHN HAMES CHAPTER, U.D.C., Jonesville, S.C.]
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