James Barnes

James Barnes (19 September 1866 – 30 April 1936) was an American author.

Biography The son of naval officer, lawyer, and collector John Sanford Barnes, he was born at Annapolis, Maryland on September 19, 1866. He attended St. Paul's School and the Pingry School, before graduating from Princeton in 1891.

Works For King or Country: A Story of the American Revolution (1896) Midshipman Farragut (1896) Naval Actions of the War of 1812 (1896) The Beginnings of the American Navy (1897) Commodore Bainbridge: From the Gunroom to the Quarter-Deck (1897) A Loyal Traitor: A Story of the War of 1812 (1897) A Princetonian: A Story of Undergraduate Life at the College of New Jersey (1897) The Hero of Erie: Oliver Hazard Perry (1898) Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors (1898) David G. Farragut (1899) Drake and His Yeomen (1899) The Great War Trek: With the British Army on the Veldt (1901) With the Flag in the Channel; or, The Adventures of Captain Gustavus Conyngham (1902) The Giant of Three Wars: A Life of General Winfield Scott (1903) The Son of Light Horse Harry (1904) The Unpardonable War (1904) The Blockaders (1905) Outside the Law (1906) The Clutch of Circumstance (1908) Rifle and Caravan (1912) Through Central Africa From Coast to Coast (1915) The Hero of Stony Point, Anthony Wayne (1916) The Life of William Bainbridge, Esq. of the United States Navy (1932), Princeton University Press (editor) From Then Till Now (1934)