James Wellborn Starnes Explained

James W. Starnes
Birth Date:	July 19, 1817
Death Date:	June 30, 1863 (aged 45)
Birth Place:	Wilkes County, North Carolina, US
Death Place:	near Spring Hill, Tennessee
Allegiance:	Confederate States of America
Branch:	Confederate States Army
Branch Label:	Branch
Rank:	Colonel
Battles:	American Civil War Tullahoma campaign
Battles Label:	Battles

James Wellborn Starnes (July 19, 1817 – June 30, 1863) was a North Carolinian planter and an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.^[1] He was appointed colonel of the 4th Tennessee Cavalry, and commanded a brigade under Bedford Forest. In one genealogical source he is called a general.

Sources

• Allardice, Bruce S. (2008). Confederate Colonels: A Biographical Register. Columbia and London: University of Missouri Press. p. 355.
• Book: Van Wagenen, Avis Stearns . Genealogy and Memoirs of Charles and Nathaniel Stearns, and Their Descendants . Courier Printing Company . 1983 . United States of America . 131.

Further reading

• Book: Bradley, Michael R. . The Raiding Winter . Pelican Publishing Company . 2013 . Gretna, LA . 157 . Appendix A.
• Book: Brown, Myers E. II . Tennessee's Confederates . Arcadia Publishing . 2011 . Charleston, SC . 56.
• Guild, George B. (1913). A Brief Narrative of the Fourth Tennessee Cavalry Regiment, Wheeler's Corps, Army of Tennessee. Nashville, TN. pp. 19–20, 247–249.
• Tullos, Tom (Spring 1992). "History of Genl. James Wellborn Starnes of Williamson County". Warwick, Richard; Manning, Ed (eds.). Williamson County Historical Society Journal, no. 22. pp. 71–83.
• Warwick, Rich, ed. (2010). "Portraits of Williamson County, continued". Williamson County Historical Society Journal, no. 41. p. 51.

Notes and References

1. Allardice 2008, p. 355.