Draft:James Gillette

James Jenkins Gillette (died November 25, 1880 or 1881) was an officer in the Union Army during the American Civil War who served as a Freedmen's Bureau official after the war.

He served with the 4th Maryland Infantry Regiment and the 71st New York Militia Regiment. He wrote of the horrors of war. After the war he was the U.S.????

Among his surviving papers are correspondence he wrote during and after the war. His papers document efforts to educate freedmen.

After the war he was a Freedmen's Bureau official.

The Library of Congress has a collection of his papers.

Same James Gillette 1880 Republican nominee for Congress from Alabama 1880?