DOB:  December 21, 1838 DOD:  June 23, 1919 Age at Enlistment: 22 Date of Enlistment:  May 9,1861 Place of Enlistment:  Franklin, TN Rank at Enlistment:  Private Rank at Discharge:  Private Casualty:  Slightly wounded in left thigh at Perryville on October 8, 1862 and captured at Harrodsburg, KY two days later.  Wounded in head at Chickamauga on September 19, 1863.  Wounded at Adairsville, GA on May 17, 1864.  Comments:  Goodspeed’s History of Tennessee has a short biography about him that highlights his life before the war: “J.G. Moody, an enterprising farmer of the Fourteenth District of Williamson County, Tenn., was born December 27, 1838, in Davidson County, Tenn., and is one of two children of William and Eliza B. (Roy) Moody….Our subject was reared in his native county and was educated in the country schools.  When only fourteen years of age he left home and learned the carpenter’s trade, at which he worked fourteen years. At the breaking out of hostilities in 1861, he enlisted in Company D, First Tennessee Volunteers.” James’ father died when he was four and his mother remarried into the Vaughan Family.  His brother, William Hogan Moody, also served in the Williamson Grays.   After being wounded and captured at Perryville in 1862, he was exchanged at Vicksburg, MS on December 5, 1862.  He was again wounded at Chickamauga and Adairsville (aka the Octagon House).  After the Battle of Nashville he returned home according to his pension application.  He stated he had become sick but Federal troops kept coming by his house so he went to Nashville and took the Oath.  He stated that after recovering he went to Mississippi to join his brother’s Cavalry unit but the war ended and he returned home.  James took Oath of Allegiance on December 27, 1864.  His Oath papers describe him as:  Height: 5'11", Hair: Dark, Eyes: Hazel, Complexion: Dark.  After the war he married Mary Lou Page on December 20, 1866.  The couple had seven children.  He ran a farm on modern day Clovercroft Road in Franklin and his house stood where the Amelia Park Subdivision currently sits.  By 1892 he had moved to Nashville to start his carpentry career again.  He worked for his Brother and Half Brother at Moody & Vaughan Carpenters.  His various addresses while living in Nashville were: 1892 1107 Laurel 1893-1905 1109 S. Spruce (now 8th Ave. S.) 1906-1907  1209 4th Ave. S 1908 806 7th Ave. S 1912-1914 324 Hancock Ave 1915-1919 1206 9th Ave. S James was a member of the United Confederate Veterans and the Company B Veterans Organization out of Nashville.  He was also a Mason and member of the Methodist Church.  He died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1919 and is buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery in Nashville in Section 15 Lot No. 5.

Left:  James’ Grave at Mount Olivet  Right: James’ photo from the Company B Veterans Book.

James Moody’s UCV Application is here.