Jesse James
Life:
(Born - /Died - ) b.
1847 d. 1882
General Overview:
He was a soldier of Confederate Army. After coming back from the war, he and his brother Frank joined forces with Cole Younger and his brothers to form the outlaw gang known as the James-Younger Gang. They robbed banks and trains throughout much of the Midwest. He was killed by a member of his own gang, Robert Ford, who wanted to collect a reward on James’ head.
General Overview:
He was a soldier of Confederate Army. After coming back from the war, he and his brother Frank joined forces with Cole Younger and his brothers to form the outlaw gang known as the James-Younger Gang. They robbed banks and trains throughout much of the Midwest. He was killed by a member of his own gang, Robert Ford, who wanted to collect a reward on James’ head.
Henry Wirz
James S. Dupray
hysically stamping and kicking, beating, and chaining prisoners together. James S. Dupray served honorably with the 12th lowa Volunteer Regiment, he returned home to "find either wife or children to greet me." But that was not the truly stunning news for his "children [were] scattered one in one place and [one] another" and his "Dear wife in her grave." The loss was almost more than James could bare, "I had nothing to live for and I wanted to lie down in the grave by her side..." Still for his children he soldiered on, selling all the property he had left (totaling $600) and putting it all into an investment property. "When home, one of the more difficult adjustments involved dealing with those who did not "do their duty" and fight for the Union. Dupray noted how those "loyal men [who] enlisted & gave in defence of their country, leaving the traitors at home to rule matters there."