In Mower General Hospital Philadelphia at muster out.
POW July 9, 1864, Monocacy, Maryland.
Returned October 19, 1864.

Mary Thomas Halford and her husband, James, are buried in the Manning Cemetery
Children: Margaret Goodnow, Private George Halford (Civil War), Mary Lewis, James Henry Halford (Manning Cemetery), David Halford, Eleanor Dean, Susan Wiseman, Caroline Halford, Anna Farrell (Manning Cemetery), Charles Halford

McPherson Post 33 - joined March 17, 1881

Buried in the Manning Cemetery

James Halford was born in Brighton England October 16, 1817, on the estate of Esquire Hart in County Kent, England. In the fall of 1833, as a young lad of fifteen, he had the opportunity to assist the future Queen Victoria of England, then a young princess of fourteen. She was a part of the Duke of Wellington's hunting party, and was thrown from her pony into a pond; James carried her from the pond in his arms. He later received a note of thanks from Victoria.

James was later in the British Army and was in Nova Scotia when Victoria was crowned Queen.

He immigrated to the US in 1835. He married Mary Thomas a native of Canada in 1841 in Constable, New York.

He served in the Union Army Co. H 106 N.Y. Infantry during the Civil War after becoming a US citizen.

He lived and had children in New York, and Wisconsin, before moving to Iowa in 1873, eventually settling in Manning, Iowa, until his death March 24 1907. He was married and the father of 10 children, 37 grandchildren, 14 great-grandchildren and 1 great-great-grandchild.

SAVED THE QUEEN
In Manning lives James Halford, whose years number 84. But it is not because he lives in this city or of his remarkable age that we make reference to this man but for the fact that he has the distinction of having been personally acquainted with the late Queen Victoria of England. At the time of the Queen's coronation in Nova Scotia, Mr. Halford was a soldier in the British Army.
He was born in 1817 in Kent County, England. In 1833, he was out with a party of fox hunters. Among the party was a young lady, in her teens, whom he assisted across a creek into which she had been thrown by her horse. The lady proved to be Queen Victoria, and some weeks later she sent her rescuer a present and a note of thanks.
While Mr. Halford has lived with his wife in this city for some fifteen years past, this is the first time that he has taken the pains to make known this incident.
March 22, 1901, Manning Monitor

Mr. Lorenzo Farrell was a Manning visitor Monday, called there by the serious illness of his grandfather, old Mr. James Halford.
Audubon County Journal, March 21, 1907