Jackson County AlArchives Biographies.....Harris, James P. April 4 1844 - living in 1893 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/al/alfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ann Anderson alabammygrammy@aol.com May 27, 2004, 8:45 pm Author: Brant & Fuller (1893) JAMES P. HARRIS, probate judge of Jackson county, was born in Huntsville, Ala., April 4, 1844. He is a son of Richard B. Harris, a native of Alabama, and he was a son of Richard Harris, a native of Fredericksburg, Va., and an officer in the Revolutionary war. James P. Harris was educated at Irvine college, Tenn., leaving there in March, 1861, his course unfinished, to enter the Confederate service. He enlisted in company K, Fourth Alabama infantry, as a private soldier, and served until August, 1862, when he was discharged as being under eighteen years of age. He afterward joined the Fourth Tennessee cavalry, under Gen. Forrest, in which he served until the war was over, surrendering at Greensboro, N. C. He participated in the following battles: First Manassas; Jamestown; Seven Pines; with Jackson in his fight with Banks, Shields and McDowell; seven days' fight around Richmond; on Forrest's raid through West Tennessee, in which there was a fight every day for a month; second Fort Donelson; Thompson's Station; Rome, Ga.; Tullahoma; Chickamauga; fifty skirmishes in east Tennessee in 1863 and 1864; Dalton, Ga.; Resaca; Tunnel Hill; Kenesaw Mountain; Peach Tree Creek; Atlanta; Franklin. He was wounded five times, but not seriously at any time. After the war he was engaged in farming in Jackson county, until 1887, and then removed to Scottsboro, where he has lived ever since. In December, 1891, he was appointed probate judge to fill an unexpired term, caused by the death of Judge John H. Norwood. He has served ten years as justice of the peace in Jackson county. He was married in October, 1867, to Miss Matilda J. Robinson, daughter of A. F. Robinson, of Larkinsville, and to this marriage there have been born four children, viz.: William E.; Anna; Mary S. and James P., Jr. Mr. Harris is a member of the order of Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Honor, and of the Methodist Episcopal church, south. Additional Comments: from "Memorial Record of Alabama", Vol. I, p. 1138 Published by Brant & Fuller (1893) Madison, WI This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/alfiles/ File size: 2.6 Kb