Individual Details

Commander of Stuart's Horse Artillery. He is buried at St. Thomas' Church, Hancock, Washington Co, MD. There are said to be estate papers for a James Breathed, 1870, Washington Co, MD.

American Civil War Soldiers Record
Ancestry.com
Name: James W Breathed , Occupation: Physician Enlistment Date: 19 April 1861 Distinguished Service: DISTINGUISHED SERVICE Side Served: Confederacy State Served: Virginia Birth Date: 13 February 1838 Death Date: 14 February 1870 Death Place: Hancock, MD Unit Numbers: 623 Service Record: Enlisted as a Private on 19 April 1861
Commission in Company B, 1st Cavalry Regiment Virginia on 19 April 1861.
Promoted to Full Lieutenant 2nd Class on 18 November 1861
Transferred Company B, 1st Cavalry Regiment Virginia on 20 November 1861
Transfered in Company 1st, Stuart Horse Light Artillery Regiment Virginia on 20 November 1861.
Promoted to Full Lieutenant 1st Class on 23 March 1862
Promoted to Full Captain on 09 August 1862 effective 22 September 1862
Promoted to Full Major on 27 February 1864
Wounded on 10 May 1864 at Yellow Tavern, VA (Commanding Horse Battalion at this time)
Wounded on 24 June 1864
Detached on 15 August 1864 (With General Early)
Paroled on 24 April 1865 at Winchester, VA Height: 5'11 " Eye Color: blue Hair Color: dark Complexion: light

http://www.civilwarhistory.com/ElmiraPrison/AddisonLetter.htm
Recollections of a Confederate Soldier of the Prison-Pens of Point Lookout, Md., and Elmira, New York
[This article is from the Southern Historical Collection of the University of North Carolina Library, Chapel Hill.]
"I was a private in Company A, Breathed's battery of Stewart's Horse artillery commanded at the time by Captain Preston P. Johnson of Baltimore, Md., and now a resident of Kentucky. Major James Breathed of Hagerstown, Md., in command of the Battalion."

http://www.hancockmd.com/history2.html
Maj. James Breathed of Maryland
A Brief History of Hancock, Maryland -Part 2
Out of one of Hancock's most illustrious families came one of the war's most notable warriors, Major James Breathed, M.D. The Breathed family was instrumental in the founding of St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Hancock. His sister, Pricilla Breathed Bridges, was the wife of Robert Bridges, co-owner of Round Top Cement Mill. Breathed graduated from the University of Maryland medical school. As the war was breaking out he had a chance meeting on a train with James Ewell Brown Stuart (a.k.a. "Jeb" Stuart). Breathed enlisted in the 1st Virginia Cavalry, again meeting up with Stuart who commissioned him "Lieutenant of Stuart's Horse Artillery." He distinguished himself at the Battle of Spotsylvania, Yellow Tavern (where Stuart was killed), and Gettysburg. After the surrender at Appomattox, Breathed returned to Hancock where he made his home with his sister Pricilla's family on the N.E. corner of Main Street and Church Hill. He practiced medicine at the top of that hill on the S.W. corner of Main & High Street. Upon his untimely death on February 14, 1870 (at age 31), he was laid to rest in St. Thomas Cemetery directly behind the Church. His tombstone bears the following quote from General Robert E. Lee: "The hardest artillery fighter the war produced."
As to James Breathed's character, I cite the words of Henry Kyd Douglas of Stonewall Jackson's staff:
"He was noble as well as a gallant fellow. Quick handed and warm hearted with courage as keen and at the same time as polished as his sword, generous, without guile and without malice, he was all together a trusty and true gentleman. The popularity of Jim Breathed was not only martial - all who knew him loved him."

http://www.rootsweb.com/~arwhite/bios3.html
THE BIOGRAPHY PAGE 3
Arthur P. STROTHER, conducting an abstract business at Searcy, was born in Henry Co., KY, Mar. 4, 1874, and is a son of Robert Bruce & Dorothy Ann (SPILMAN) STROTHER, who were also natives of Henry Co., the father & son being born in the same house.......
Arthur P. STROTHER was educated in the public schools of KY & MO & in the Marmaduke Military Acadamy of Sweet Springs, MO. He had removed with his father to MO in 1881 & after completing his education he wa connected with the Southern Magazine of Louisville, KY, in reading proof for a year. He next removed to Chrisman, IL, where he clerked in a store and also acted as a RR agent. He afterward returned to MO, where he engaged in general farming and also made a specialty of raising potatoes. He afterward established his home at Keytesville, MO, where he entered the abstract business, in which he was assc. with Henry C. MINTER, who had been probate judge of the county for 36 consecutive years.
It was about the time that he engaged in the abstract business that Mr. STROTHER was united in marriage to Miss Mary BREATHED, a native of MO & a daughter of John & Caroline (BREATHITT) BREATHED. Her father served in the Confederate army in Capt. Elijah White's co., Stonewall Jackson's brigade, and was captured, being held prisoner of war on Chesapeake bay. He was the son of Judge John W. BREATHED, who procured an order from Pres. Lincoln for his son's parole, the latter haven become broken in health. His brother, Major James BREATHED, was commander of Stuart's Horse, an artillery company, after the death of Major Pelham. Judge John W. BREATHED married Ann McGill WILLIAMS, a descedant of several of the old & honored colonial families of Maryland. His father, Isaac BREATHED, married Kitty LYLES, a daughter of Dr. Richard LYLES, a prominent physician of Maryland. The ancestry is traced still farther back to John BREATHED, who married Jane KELLY & who emigrated from England to the new world in colonial days, settling first in PA & afterward in MD, devoting his attention to farming in both states. John BREATHED was father of Isaac BREATHED.


Died:
Feb 16, 1870, Maj. James Breathed, at Hancock. Maj. Breathed was a distinguished officer in the Confederate service, but after the war engaged in the practice of medicine at Hancock.
Buried St. Thomas' Graveyard at Hancock, MD.

Found on FindAGrave at Saint Thomas Graveyard.

Birth	13 Feb 1838	Morgan County, Virginia
Death	14 Feb 1870	Hancock, Washington County, Maryland

Father	Judge John William Breathed (1814 - )
Mother	Mary Ann McGill Williams (1819 - 1862)
Sibling	John Breathed (1841 - )
Sibling	Priscilla Williams Breathed (1843 - )
Sibling	Jane Breathed (1844 - 1862)
Sibling	Isaac Breathed (1847 - )
Sibling	Francis Breathed (1848 - )
Sibling	Elizabeth Breathed (1850 - )
Sibling	Kate "Kitty" Breathed (1854 - 1860)
Sibling	William Grafton Breathed (1857 - )
Sibling	Edward McGill Breathed (1859 - 1925)