James Augustus Graham

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1. September 17, 1862 The Orange Guards lose three killed and about twenty wounded at Sharpsburg Company G of the 27th North Carolina, the Orange Guards, fought at Sharpsburg under Lt. James A. Graham with three men killed and about twenty wounded. Lt. J. Y. Whitted was wounded in the leg and left in Union hands, and Sgt. Thomas C. Carmichael later died of his wound. People: James Augustus GrahamHillsborough Recorder, October 1, 1862, p. 3
2. October 14, 1863 The Orange Guards lose seven killed at Bristoe Station In the charge of Cooke's and Kirkland's North Carolina brigades at Bristoe Station, Virginia, Company G of the 27th North Carolina, the Orange Guards, lost seven men killed, among them Corporal H. P. Woods, and many wounded, including Capt. S. Dickson; Lieut. James A. Graham of the company sent the full list home for publication. People: James Augustus GrahamHillsborough Recorder, October 28, 1863, p. 2
3. May 5-12, 1864 Capt. Robert Walker Anderson of Hillsborough is killed at the Wilderness and other town men are wounded Capt. Robert Walker Anderson, ordnance officer of Cooke's brigade, was killed in the Wilderness on May 5. He was about twenty-five, the son of the late William E. Anderson of Hillsborough, and had married Paul C. Cameron's eldest daughter a year before. In the same fighting Webb of the 27th had an arm broken, Lt. J. A. Graham was wounded and Sgt. T. B. Whitted lost an eye. People: Paul C. Cameron, James Augustus GrahamHillsborough Recorder, May 18, 1864, p. 2
4. December 1, 1870 The trustees vote to suspend the university's exercises and stop faculty salaries from February 1 On the motion of the Rev. James Reid of Franklin County, the Reconstruction board of trustees voted on December 1, 1870, to suspend the university's exercises until further orders, and on James B. Mason's motion fixed February 1, 1871, as the day the faculty's salaries ended. The same day President Solomon Pool laid before the board a plan to lease the Chapel Hill property and bring the state's colleges under the university, which its committees dropped on February 1. People: Solomon Pool, James Augustus Graham, James B. MasonInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
5. 1874-1883 and 1885-1889 James A. Graham serves on the university's board of trustees James A. Graham was one of only two members of the Reconstruction board elected again to the new board of trustees in 1874, and he served until 1883 and again from 1885 to 1889. In May 1875 he sat on the five-man committee whose plan for reopening the university the trustees adopted.Search the index · Internet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), pp. 50, 71, 786, 788
6. May 1874 to January 1875 The new trustees sue Solomon Pool and Alexander McIver at Orange Superior Court and win possession of the university in the Supreme Court At the May 1874 term of Orange Superior Court the new board brought one action against Superintendent Alexander McIver, who held the university's seal and books and had agreed to a friendly test suit, and another against Solomon Pool for the buildings. Judge Albion W. Tourgee ruled against the trustees; John W. Graham and James A. Graham of Hillsborough argued for them without fee, as did B. F. Moore and William H. Battle on appeal in June 1874. At its January term 1875 the state Supreme Court decided for the university on every point, and possession passed to Andrew Mickle, the board's agent, with the seal, books and papers going to Treasurer Kemp Battle. People: Solomon Pool, Kemp Plummer Battle, Alexander McIver, John W. Graham, Andrew Mickle, Albion W. Tourgee, Bartholomew F. Moore, James Augustus Graham, William Horn BattleInternet Archive: Kemp P. Battle, History of the University of North Carolina, vol. 2 (1912), full text
7. October 15-19, 1878 Robert Boswell is convicted of the Blackwell murders and sentenced to hang At the fall term of Superior Court a jury convicted Robert Boswell of murdering Nancy Blackwell, a widow living near the railroad a mile west of Durham whose house burned with her and two children inside in August 1877; he was sentenced to hang on November 22, but the governor reprieved him until February 1879 so he could testify in other cases. The case of Rebecca Lyon, charged as an accomplice, was continued. People: James Augustus Graham, Augustus Washington GrahamSearch the index · Hillsborough Recorder, October 23, 1878, p. 3
8. by February 21, 1880 University trustees name a committee to examine the university's organization At a recent meeting the trustees raised a special committee of five to visit the university and examine its organization: A. M. Lewis of Raleigh (chairman), C. H. Wiley, James A. Graham, A. H. Merritt and Julian S. Carr. The members were expected in Chapel Hill soon. People: James Augustus Graham, Julian S. CarrSearch the index · The Chapel Hill Ledger, February 21, 1880, p. 2
9. October 18, 1882 Caldwell Democrats organize a Bennett and Cox Club Citizens around Caldwell organized a Bennett and Cox Club, electing L. W. Hall president and H. Y. Harris secretary, heard James A. Graham and C. E. Parrish speak, and agreed to meet every Wednesday night through the campaign. People: James Augustus GrahamSearch the index · Orange County Observer (Hillsborough), October 28, 1882, p. 2
10. by October 26, 1928 UNC Press publishes James A. Graham's war letters and the Orange Guards' descriptive book The University of North Carolina Press published, in the James Sprunt Historical Studies, the Civil War letters of James Augustus Graham and the Descriptive Book of the Orange Guards, Company G of the 27th North Carolina, edited by H. M. Wagstaff. The book records each man of the Hillsborough company, almost all born in Orange County, and Wagstaff called it the most complete surviving record of any of the state's units.Search the index · The Chapel Hill Weekly, October 26, 1928, p. 3