BUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA), JAMES GREEFIELD - Washington County, Arkansas | JAMES GREEFIELD BUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA) - Arkansas Gravestone Photos

James Greefield BUCHANAN (VETERAN CSA)

Cane Hill Cemetery
Washington County,
Arkansas

PRIVATE
Clayton's Company
Company B 34th Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
February 12, 1838 - February 21, 1864

*Obituary
1911 Arkansas Confederate Census]

BUCHANAN, James Greenfield, died February 21, 1864, was born February 12, 1838, the son of Isaac Buchanan, born at Bowling Green, Warren County, Kentucky, who lived at Cane Hill, Arkansas. He was the son of Thomas and Jennie (Neely) Buchanan, who lived at Bowling Green, Kentucky. Maiden name of subject’s mother was Naomi Crawford, daughter of John Crawford, who lived at Cave Creek, Fayetteville, Tennessee. John Crawford moved from Virginia to Lincoln County, Tennessee about 1815. He was the father of 18 children, five of whom married Buchanan’s. Subject was educated at Cane Hill and Cane Hill College, he was a Democrat and a Cumberland Presbyterian. He served in Company B, 34th Arkansas Infantry.

Sons of Naomi and Isaac Buchanan
Brothers purportedly hung by Union soldiers

"Together they lived, Together they died, Together they live in Christ"

*CC Note: Additional information a viewer. (10/30/2022)

Pleasant, James, and William were not hanged but shot by a federal patrol after stealing the horse of a Federal officer the night before. The three were riding together with three other men to a rendezvous with other Partisan Rangers when they stopped to rest their horses and themselves and were caught off guard by the patrol. The three brothers were killed and the other three men escaped. Montgomery Wilson, who was a student of and then a private who served with Pleasant witnessed the attack and left a detailed description. The three were mutilated after their death and their bodies were dumped in their mothers yard.

Contributed on 9/1/10 by judyfrog
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Submitted: 9/1/10 • Approved: 10/30/22 • Last Updated: 11/2/22 • R370171-G370170-S3

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