JAMES HENRY ARTHUR BOND -- 5th CAVALRYCLINTON COUNTY'S OWN JAMES BOND -- James Henry Arthur Bond. He enlistedin the 5th Cavalry in late December 1863, when he was 26 years old, andas mustered in as a quartermaster sergeant for Company A. During thetime he was with the regiment, he was reduced in ranks and then restoredto his former status. On July 19, 1865, he was mustered out atWinchester, VA, after spending his whole military career with the Armyof the Shenandoah.James returned home to his wife, Susan Church Walker, and his first son,George. By 1869, James was a Methodist minister and served in Cornwall,VT, North Ferrisburg, VT, Williston, VT, Willsboro, NY, Keeseville,Benson, VT, West Rutland, VT, and Sandy Hill, NY. In 1896, his healthfailed and he returned to Keeseville to live with his son, also a JamesHenry Arthur, who was the Town Supervisor in Keeseville.On receiving the tidings of the death of Rev. James Henry Bond, of theTroy Conference, Dr. Joseph Cook, head of the Conference, sent to G. W.Bond, M. D., James\' son, the following letter:\"Dear Mr. Bond:It is with keen distress that I received the news you sent of yourhonored and now sainted father's departure.\He was a soldier of the Union, and, as such, was brave, sagacious,unflinching, victorious. In some sense, he was a martyr of the war, forhis physical disabilities were brought on largely by his exposure incamps, marches, and battles of our great contest. I know immensely thenoble, martial, heroic deeds he wrought for the land of his adoption.Born in Cornwall, England, he was as patriotic an American,nevertheless, as I ever met.He was a soldier of the cross, and as such was brave, sagacious,unflinching, victorious. He has fought the good fight, and kept thefaith, and finished the course.All his children will find the legacy of his example more and moreprecious as the years pass. We are all in God's hands. He has a kindheart.My father knew your father well and he preached the funeral service formy mother. I mourn with you as if he had been a brother of my own.Yours faithfully, Joseph Cook"James is buried in the Evergreen Cemetery in Keeseville, and when Susandied in 1901, she was buried with him.
