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James Anderson White (Micajah Goodwin, Benjamin "Chickasaw Ben", Wesley) was born on Jul 18 1842 in Logan County Virginia.. He died on Mar 19 1922 in Bald Knob Boone County West Virginia. The cause of death was Cerebral Hemmorage. He was buried on Mar 22 1922 in Hatfield Cemetery Barrett Boone County West Virginia.


Enlisted 5-Oct-1861; Private in Co. B, Eighth Regiment
InfantryVolunteers; honorably discharged 1-Aug-1865 at
Wheeling, Va.; pensionedunder certificate #1083779

7th Regiment Cavalry

Organized from 8th West Virginia Mounted Infantry January
26, 1864.Attached to 3rd Brigade, 4th Division, West Virginia,
to April, 1864. 3rdBrigade, 2nd Cavalry Division, West
Virginia, to June, 1864. 2nd Brigade,2nd Cavalry Division,
West Virginia, to July, 1864. 1st Separate Brigade,Kanawha
Valley, W. Va., to August, 1865.

SERVICE.--Duty at Martinsburg and Charleston, W. Va., to
April, 1864.Crook's Raid on Virginia & Tennessee Railroad
May 2-19. Rocky Gap May 6.Cloyd's Mountain May 9. New
River Bridge May 10. Cove Gap May 10.Blacksburg May 11.
Union and Pond Mountain Gap May 12. Meadow Bluff May24.

Hunter's Raid to Lynchburg May 26-July 1. Buffalo Gap June
6.Lexington June 11. Buchanan June 13. New London June
16. Diamond HillJune 17. Lynchburg June 17-18. Liberty June
19. Buford's Gap June 20.About Salem June 21. At Loup
Creek June 29. Ordered to the Kanawha Valleyand duty at
Charleston, Coalsmouth, Winfield, Point Pleasant and
Guyandotte until August, 1865. Coalsmouth September 30,
1864. Skirmish atWinfield October 26, 1864 (1 Co.).
Operations in the Kanawha Valley November 5-12. Mustered
out August 1, 1865.

Regiment lost during service 5 Officers and 28 Enlisted men
killed and mortally wounded and 2 Officers and 201 Enlisted
men by disease. Total236.

James Anderson White was 5"7 tall fair comp brown eyes
and light hair.


James married Paulina Ann Workman daughter of James Hewett Workman and Ruth Halstead on Nov 18 1869 in Wharton Boone County West Virginia. Paulina was born on Jan 1 1842 in Bald Knob Logan County Virginia. She died on Oct 18 1929 in Bald Knob Boone County West Virginia. She was buried on Oct 21 1929 in Hatfield Cemetery Barrett Boone County West Virginia.

They had the following children:

i. Wilson Mullens White was born on Oct 10 1870. He died on Apr 6 1947.

ii. Venila White was born on Sep 23 1872.

iii. Lander White was born in 1874 in Bald Knob Boone County West Virginia. He died in 1878 in Bald Knob Boone County West Virginia.

iv. Blackburn White was born on Mar 19 1877. He died on Nov 2 1961.

v. Charles White was born on Jul 12 1879 in Bald Knob,Boone County West Virginia. He died on Jul 22 1879 in Bald Knob,Boone County West Virginia.

Twin to Kemper


vi. Kemper White was born on Jul 12 1879. He died on Nov 23 1967.

vii. Freelon White was born on Jun 13 1881. He died in Apr 1967.

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