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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  JAMES H. BONE, United States Commissioner, was born October 27, 1836, in
Warren County, Ohio. His parents were John and Christiana (Maple) Bone, natives
of Ohio and New Jersey. The senior Bone was a farmer and trader, he was a Whig
before the war; served his county as commissioner ten or twelve years, and died
in 1887.

  The Bone family first appeared in America in North Carolina, whence James Bone
removed to Virginia, where he married Nancy Hart, and soon afterward emigrated
to Warren County. He was J. H. Bone's grandfather. He served as an officer in
the war of 1812. His father came from Scotland and settled in North Carolina.

  J. H. Bone was reared on a farm and educated at Lebanon Academy. At the age of
seventeen, he entered a store as a clerk and soon began dealing in supplies and
provisions on his own account and continued this business until 1861. In July,
1861, he enlisted in Company A, Thirty-fifth Ohio Infantry, as a private, and in
a very short time was promoted to the second lieutenancy of that company. He was
at Mill Springs, Kentucky, and Shiloh; wounded in the shoulder at Corinth;
fought at Perryville and Tullahoma, and in the campaign after Stone River; was
promoted in 1863 to a first lieutenancy and soon again to adjutant of the
regiment. In this capacity he had been acting during the most of the time of his
service. He was wounded twice at Chickamauga, but did not leave the field, and
soon after was commissioned as captain. He fought at Missionary Ridge, Ringgold,
Resaca, Kenesaw Mountain, Marietta, Chattahooche River, Big Shanty, Peach Tree
Creek, and all the way from Ringgold to Atlanta. In fact, he participated in all
the battles in which the Army of the Ohio and of the Cumberland were engaged,
and was with Gen. Geo. H. Thomas throughout his whole career after he received
his commission as brigadier-general.

  During Sherman's campaign to Atlanta, Captain Bone was ranking line officer,
and much of the time in command of his regiment, and so great was the attachment
between himself and his comrades, that, when he was tendered the commission of
colonel in a new regiment, by the Governor of Ohio, in 1863, he declined the
honor, preferring to serve as captain in his old regiment. During the battle of
Chickamauga, Captain Bone's regiment lost two-thirds of its number in killed and
wounded, and was among the very last to leave the field. In the battle nearly
all the company officers of this regiment were killed or wounded. There was only
one line officer of the regiment promoted to the field during the whole term of
service.

  Captain Bone had some very remarkable experiences while in service. During the
siege of Corinth, he had one of his shoulder straps shot off by a sharp-shooter;
on the second day of the battle of Chickamauga (September, 1863), in the
thickest of the fight, he was struck squarely by a minie hall on the buckle
plate of his sword belt. The force of the ball dishing the plate, flattened and
welded the ball to it, and heated the plate to such an extent that an impression
of the threads in his coat was left on the back, or inside of the plate, and the
Captain was prostrated and unconscious. In less than half an hour after this
incident, in which the plate had saved his life, another minie ball hit a large
silver watch in the fob pocket of his pantaloons, glanced off, making a flesh
wound. This watch and belt plate are now in possession of the Captain's family,
and highly prized as mementoes. The Captain was also struck by a minie ball at
the battle of Missionary Ridge, November 25, 1863. Captain Bone was mustered out
in March, 1865. In that same year he came to Huntsville, and became interested
in mercantile business and planting. In l868 he was elected Clerk of the Circuit
Court, and served six years: was appointed United States Claim Commissioner, and
served some three years; was chief deputy in the United States Marshal's office
for Northern District of Alabama four years, and is now United States
Commissioner by appointment of late Justice Wm. B. Woods of the United States
Supreme Court.

  Captain Bone is senior member of the North Alabama Real Estate Agency, doing
business under the firm name of Jas. H. Bone & Co. He is a member of the
Episcopal Church, F. & A. M., K. of P., K. of H., and G. A. R.; one of the-solid
citizens of Huntsville, and a leading spirit in all public enterprises.

  He was married in 1857 to Anna Hutchinson, daughter of Thos. P. Hutchinson,
Esq., of Warren County, Ohio. To this wife were born two children: Horace J.,
now of Kansas City, Mo., and Cynthia Delia, wife of William Holloway, of same
place. Mrs. Anna Bone died in March, 1880, and in March, 1883, Captain Bone
married Mrs. Laura Gunnell, daughter of Hon. Thomas George, of an old Virginia
family, and a grand-daughter of Chapman Lee, who was a cousin of Gen. Robert E.
Lee.

  Capt. J. H. Bone has two children by his second wife: James Holding Bone and
Chapman Lee Bone.


Additional Comments:
Extracted from:

Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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