"The following officers have been appointed . . ."

Fort Monroe, Sept. 13.

The following officers have been appointed from the 3d Pennsylvania Artillery as Assistant Superintendents of the Freedmeu's Bureau: 

Captain J. B. Bisphane for Elizabeth City county, 

Lieut. James Darling. New Kent county; 

Lieut. Frank Martin, Charles City county;

Lieut Marshall, James City county; 

Lieut. J, W Kaye for York county.

-The New York Times, September 15, 1865

 James A.H. Darling was born in Maine, in 1840; removed to Reading with his parents, and thence to Philadelphia about 1848. He is an accountant. He was first lieutenant of an artillery company* for three years during the Rebellion

-History of Schuylkill County, Pa: With Illustrations . . .

Joel Munsell's Sons - 1881




An officer in Battery K, he was also the brother of one of the regiment's Majors, John Darling. His photograph is here, upper left corner.