Dr. James Ware

James Ware, M. D., of Lake Charles, was born in Ohio, September 23, 1826, of parents who were natives of Goochland county, Va. He was reared and educated at Columbus, Ohio, and graduated in medicine at Sterling medical college, after which he began the practice at Evergreen, La. In February, 1862, he enlisted as a private in the Sixteenth Louisiana infantry, and in July, 1862, was promoted to surgeon. In this capacity he served with the regiment to the close of the war. Since then he has been in the practice of medicine successively at Evergreen, Marksville and Lake Charles.

SOURCE: Clement Anselm Evans, Editor, Confederate Military History, Vol. 10, p. 618

Mrs. Josephine McPherson Ware

Mrs. Josephine Ware, wife of Dr. James Ware, Surgeon of Calcasieu Camp, Lake Charles, La., died on the 27th of February, at the age of seventy-six years. She was born in Maryland and of Scotch-Catholic stock, her parents having emigrated to this country at the time of religious persecution in Scotland. She was married to Dr. Ware in 1865, and had been a resident of Louisiana, and of Lake Charles since 1887.

Mrs. Ware was a woman of remarkable strength of character, and she lived and died an ideal wife, mother, and friend. Her husband was surgeon of the 16th Louisiana Regiment. Gibson's Brigade. As a member of the U. D. C. Chapter of Lake Charles. she was actively interested in its good work, and the pallbearers at her funeral were all Confederate Veterans. Her husband and two sons survive her.

SOURCE: Confederate Veteran, Volume 15, No. 4, April 1907, p. 183

Colonel Rutherford B. Hayes to Lucy Web Hayes, April 15, 1863

Camp White, April 15, Evening.

Dearest: — Your short business letter came this afternoon. I do not yet know about your coming here during the campaigning season. If we fortify, probably all right; if not, I don't know.

Lieutenant Ellen is married. His wife sent me a fine big wedding cake and two cans of fruit. Good wife, I guess, by the proofs sent me.

You speak of Jim Ware. What does he think of the prospects? I understand Jim in a letter to Dr. Joe says Dr. Ware gives it up. Is this so?

I send you more photographs. The major's resignation was not accepted and he is now taking hold of things with energy.

We are having further disasters, I suspect, at Charleston and in North Carolina. But they are not vital. The small results (adverse results, I mean,) likely to follow are further proofs of our growing strength.

What a capital speech Everett has made. He quite redeems himself.

Always say something about the boys — their sayings and doings.

Affectionately ever,

R.

Mrs. Hayes.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 2, p. 405