Wilson-Pitt-Beaufort County NcArchives Obituaries.....Whitehead, James A., Major August 7, 1862
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The Standard of Raleigh Aug. 20, 1862
The Standard of Raleigh Aug. 20, 1862
OBITUARY NOTICE
   Departed this life in Wilson, North Caroliina, on Thursday, the 7th of 
August, MAJOR JAMES A. WHITEHEAD, of the 55th Regiment of North Carolina State 
Troops, son of HOWELL WHITEHEAD, Esq. of Pitt County, N.C.
   This excellent man and gallant officer was in the service of his country at 
the falling of Hatteras, and was a prisoner in Fort Warren from August from 
August of last year to February of this. He was at that time in the Washington 
Greys, the first company formed in Beaufort County.
   Upon his return, he raised a company of his own, which was assigned to the 
55th regiment, in which, upon this formation, he was elected Major. During the 
last seven year of his life he was a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church 
South, and for several years was a useful office-bearer in that church.
   He was in attendance upon a Court-Martial when attacked by his last 
illness, which continued a fortnight and was endured with exemplary patience.
A portion of that time he seemed equally blessed with the comforts of divine 
religion. In his delirious hours his spiritual interest and his military 
duties seemed to absorb and divide his attention; sometime he would be giving 
orders, and caring for the welfare of his men, and at other times he would 
break into expressions of most earnest prayer, his words being more coherent 
than at other times. Thus has passed away, in the 27th year of his age, one of 
the noble army of our Christian patriots, who are fighting the battles of our 
freedom, and enrolling their names among the blessed martyrs. As a son and a 
brother, as a citizen and as officer, as friend and a Christian gentleman, he 
endear himself to many who will keep his memory fresh and lively in their 
hearts, and strive to imitate those virtues which made him so noble a speciman 
of manhood.

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