Lt. William James RUSLING
- Born: 4 Jan 1832, Pennsylvania, USA
- Marriage: Emma Rae SMITH on 25 Apr 1872
- Died: 6 Dec 1896 aged 64
 User ID: P00050672.
General Notes:
Civil War Photograph of WJR can be found on:
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/cwarSubjects06.html
Enlisted Union Army 24 Dec 1861 - New Jersey
William James was private, sergeant, second lieutenant, and first lieutenant Company F, Fifth New Jersey, during our great Civil War. He was a man of character and ability. After the war, he became Deputy Assessor United States Internal Revenue at Hackettstown, New Jersey, under his uncle Robert, and Deputy United States Internal Revenue Collector at Jersey City, New Jersey, under various Collectors, who all held him in high esteem for his intelligence and integrity, until his health failed. He then resigned, about 1894, and died 1896. We were comrades in the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War for nearly three years, and he was a gallant and accomplished officer, and a very nice fellow. Although of Methodist parentage and ancestry, he became a Presbyterian, and died an elder in that church at Newark, New Jersey,
William married Emma Rae SMITH, daughter of Jesse SMITH and Margaret VALENTINE, on 25 Apr 1872. (Emma Rae SMITH was born on 25 Oct 1844 in Morristown, NJ.)
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