James Barnes (author)

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James Barnes (1866-1936) was an American author. He was born at Annapolis, Md., and graduated at Princeton in 1891. He was with Scribner's Magazine for some time; in 1894-95, was assistant editor of Harper's Weekly; from 1899 to 1901 was war correspondent for The Outlook in South Africa; and from 1905 to 1908 was editor of Appleton's Booklover's Magazine. He wrote:

• Naval Actions of the War of 1812 (1896)
• Yankee Ships and Yankee Sailors (1898)
• David G. Farragut (1899)
• Drake and his Yeomen (1899)
• The Giant of Three Wars (1903)
• The Blockaders (1905)
• Outside the Law (1906)
• The Clutch of Circumstance (1908)
• Rifle and Caravan (1912)

During World War One he did important war work as head of the Princeton Aviation School for several months, and major of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps of the United States Reserve. He was head of the photographic division of the army and was sent to France, as commander of the United States School of Aërial Photography, to organize that work at the front.

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