Harrison County Iowa Genealogy

HISTORY OF HARRISON COUNTY, IOWA, 1891
BIOGRAPHIES
Page 765
JAMES N. MCMANIMIE

James N. McMANIMIE a representative farmer of section 4, Cincinnati Township, came to Harrison County, in the spring of 1855, with his mother, and her family, together with the grandfather, who entered land in St. John's Township. The grandfather was James G. DAVIS. Our subject remained at home with his mother and grandfather until January 23, 1862, when he enlisted in Company H, Fifteenth Iowa Infantry, when he was only a little past fifteen years of age. He went South and was in the following engagements�battle of Shiloh, of April 6, and 7, 1862, the siege of Corinth, Miss., the battle of Bolivar, Tenn., Iuka, Miss., battle of Corinth, October 3-4, 1862, Waterford, Miss., November 29, 1862, Lafayette, Tenn., in 1863; Richmond, La., in January, 1863; siege of Vicksburg, Oak Ridge, Monroe, La., August 29, 1863; Meridian, Miss., in February, 1864; Big Shanty, Ga., June 10, 1864; Noonday Creek, Ga., June 15, 1864; Bushy Mountain, Ga., June 19, 1864; Kenesaw Mountain, June 27, 1864; and at the same place July 1-2 of the same year; advanced on Atlanta July 20, 1864; charge of Atlanta July 1, 1864, and the battle of Atlanta one day later; Ezra Church July 28, 1864; before Atlanta August 3 to 16; Atlanta & Montgomery Railroad August 28, 1864; Jonesboro, Ga., August 31, to September 1; Flint Creek, Ga., September 1, 1864; Lovejoy Station September 2, 1864; Fairburn, Ga.,October 2, 1864,; Snake Creek Gap, Ga., October 15, 1864; Savannah, Ga., December 21, 1864; Gardner's Corner, S. C. , January 14, 1865; River Bridge, S. C., February 2, 1865, Big Salkahatchie Swamp. S. C., February 3,1865; North Edisto River S. C. , February 9, 1865; Columbia, S. C., February 17, 1865; Cheraw, S. C. March 3, 1865; Fayetteville, N. C., March 11, 1865; Bentonville, N. C., March 20-21, 1865; Raleigh, N. C., April 13, 1865.

Our subject participated in the Grand Review at Washington, which was by all odds the greatest military gathering which ever passed by a given point, at any one place in the world, that history gives us any record of. Our subject was discharged at Louisville, Ky., July 24, 1865. He passed through thirty-seven battles and skirmishes and lost his right eye. Considering the age at which this man entered the service and the campaigns and engagements he took part in, his war record is scarcely excelled, if equaled, in the annals o the Iowa pages of the American Conflict.

Our subject was born in Putnam County, Ind., September 12, 1846, and is the son of George and Emily ( DAVIS) McMANIMIE, and when nine years of age his grandparents and his mother, with her family of three sons and one daughter, started for Harrison County, Iowa, taking boat at Beardstown, Ill, via St. Louis, there took steamboat for Omaha. On the way from St. Louis to Council Bluffs, the grandmother and our subject's sister died with the cholera. The mother married Martin SUTTON and they now live in Springfield, Ill.

Our subject was married in Pottawattamie County, Iowa, March 6, 1866, to Miss Mary L. PARKER, the daughter of Joseph and Mary ( SMITH) PARKER, and they are the parents of six children---Minnie B., Emma E., Harvey O., Laura S., James T. and Bertha. Minnie is the wife of M.J. BREEN, and lives at Rock Rapids, Iowa.

Mrs. McMANIMIE was born in Jersey County, Ill., December 12, 1846. Her parents came to Pottawattamie County, Iowa, in 1860. She died May 3, 1891, and is buried in Calhoun Cemetery. She was a member of the Woman's Relief Corps at Modale; her husband being a member of BOYD Post, No. 397, G. A. R. at Modale.

Politically our subject is a stanch Republican, "voting as he shot!"

Since our subject's return from the army he has remained in Harrison County, except four or five months spent in Wyoming. He has improved two farms in Cincinnati Township; his present place contains two hundred and twenty-five acres. He is a thorough-going farmer and a highly-respected citizen of the progressive type. In 1890 he was appointed as one of the enumerators for the United States Census Bureau.

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