Issac James Arwine

1832 - 1862  (29 years)

• Name	Issac James Arwine  [1, 2]
  Birth	28 Mar 1832	Anderson Co., Tennessee, -USA   [2]
  Gender	Male
  Census	1850	Indiana, -USA, Johnson Township   [2]
  Note	He enlisted as a private in Company C, 9th Regiment, Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Enlisted on 8/23/1861 and was mustered in on 9/24/1861. On 3/7/1862 he suffered a very severe shoulder / back wound in the Battle of Pea Ridge, Benton County, Arkansas and died from this wound at 11:00 A.M. on 3/13/1862 in Cassville, Barry Co., Missouri. On 3/15/1862, he was buried in the Fayetteville National Cemetery, Fayetteville, Benton Co., Arkansas, section 2, grave 20. Partial description was: Five feet six inches tall, sandy hair, blue eyes. The marriage of Isaac James and Nancy Jane was the first in Newton Township, Buchanan Co., Iowa and was performed by Reuben Walton, Justice of the Peace. (From the History of Buchanan County, 1881) The following two items are verbatim transcripts from the Civil War diary of Vinson Holman, who was in the same Company as Isaac James, and details the wounding and death of Isaac. Vinson was a brother of Nancy Jane Holman. 'March the 7 1862 was a nice warm day we was stiff and sore on account of the long march yesterday. We got Breckfast about Seven oclock. We had orders to pack up our things. and load them in the wagon and put on our Catrage Boxes hever Sacks Canteens and fill oure Canteens with water than Load our guns. and stay around Camp redy to fall in at any time if very nessarie to fight old Price. Then about ten o Clock the orders was to fall in. We done So and marched about two miles up the main road where there was Canonading We got there the Rebeles Canon Balls begin to fly like hail around our heads We begain to think that We was going right in to action in good earnist they keep Canonaden Some time our Canons cast a little. we was formed across a hollow. We was first formed on a side of a hill. we laid down. Some then up fight a quarter of a hour to prevent the Canon Ball and Shell. then we was ordered to retreat Slowly back about one hundred yards and formed over a hollow and rested about a hour. Company C was formed in the hollow then Company C was ordered out as skermis here. We went out. then halted till the Regiment came up to us. then we fell in to our propr places and marched on to a side of a hill. then we saw on a side of another hill about fifty yards from us Coverd with Rebeles. they saw us and ran like blue lighting. We fired three or four shots into them and sent some of them to there home. then we marched over on the Hill that they was on and formed in line of Battle we laid down 15 or 20 minutes and rested then the enemy came up to us on our left and fought some time there we ceased firing. So I saw them. They got so clost in the Brush to us that I Could see there flags. the balls flew like hail around us. we was fighting seven Men to our one then we ceased firing for some time. This was the Second Charge that we made on them. we came up to them to a Charge Bayonete after the Second Charge retreated back a little to a opened field then the enemy pored out of the Brush on to us by Thousends We fought here some time we held our own long as we could then the order was to retreat. We retreated from ther Charge Liutenant Bill was killed the first Charge. Capton Bull was wounded the first Charge. Bill Whisennand was wounded in the Sholder. John Cartrite was wounded in the first Charge in the instep. I heard them boath hollow at that time the Second Charge. Isaac Arwine was wounded very bad in the sholder. The Ball entered the right sholder and lodged in the left sholder. Now at present he is very bad misery and is thought that won't live. He also thinks so himself he only fired three tims till he was shot. He fell over. Boys retreated back. He looked back saw that we was retreating. He said he thought he would shoot before he started back he got a bout half loaded a gain and ball struck him he fell. he said he thought he was a dead Man. He tried to get up. he made out to get up. Walked about one hundred yards before he got to us. Then some of our Men took him to the Hospittle and now at present he is in great misery and has given up every geting well. The Second Charge Steve Holman was wounded in the thy with a grape shot made a very large hole it don't seem to hurt him much he is in good spirits and is getting a long fine at present. In the Second Charge John Letherman was wounded about the ancle broke his leg and is exspected that his leg will haf to come off he is in great pain Me and Eli Holand is the only ones excaped a wound although they would blow my hair. There was ninteen of Company C was wounded and two kiled. With our wounded and kiled was half of our Company all fighting ceased a bout dusk to have a good ready in the morning every thing was Silent. This is only a sketch at that. March the 13th 1862 this morning is a very warm day and Arwine very bad he was very bad all night. And to day about eleven oclock Arwine Died we laid him on a hard board out of doors and Buried him about three oclock. We put a cople of Blankets around him and put him in a big grave and covered him up. It looks hard but cant be helped. We had no boards to make any kind of a box there wasent no Man that Suffered any more while he lived his pain was so great that it gave him the lock Jaw he was in his rite mind all the while half of his breth came out of the wound on his back he smelt auful it was enough to make any body Sick to be around him. He wanted the Doctor to give him something to ease him and put him to sleep so he would never wake up a gain. He said he was very sorry that he could not get home once more. But he said it was the fate of war and his time has come and he must go. He got so along towards the last that he could not spit nor swollow on acount of the lock Jaw I don't belive he would have Suffered any more if he had been burnt up there is no excitement here to day. This evening a bout dark it blowed up and came up a heavy shower and rained most all night and still raining some yet this morning.' His widow, Nancy Jane, applied for a pension on 4/13/1863.
  Death	13 Mar 1862	Cassville, Barry Co., Missouri, -USA   [2]
  Person ID	I27347	HHTT
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

  Father	James Arwine,   b. 27 Nov 1799, Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, -USA d. 3 Nov 1876, Irving, Dallas Co., Texas, -USA (Age 76 years)
  Mother	Mary Ellen Martin,   b. 20 Mar 1804, Anderson, Tennessee, -USA d. 1885, Tarrant, Texas, -USA (Age 80 years)
  Marriage	27 Jun 1822	Anderson Co., Tennessee, -USA   [2]
  Family ID	F6304	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Nancy Jane Holman,   b. 23 Feb 1836, Indiana, -USA d. 10 Aug 1915, Coggon, Iowa, -USA (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	8 Feb 1855	Newton Twsp., Buchanan, Iowa, -USA   [2]
  Children	> 1. Sarah Susan Arwine,   b. 7 Dec 1856 > 2. Mary Catherine Arwine,   b. 24 Dec 1858   3. Vinson Arwine,   b. 1861   d. 1862 (Age 1 year)   4. James Henry Arwine
  Family ID	F6317	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	1 Jul 2022

  
  

• Sources

  [S418] Arwine, Jim, . [S416] GEDCOM File C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI (Reliability: 1).