James Browne Lockney (or Loughney as he writes it in his diary) was a New Berlin, Wisconsin farm youth who volunteered for service in the Civil War in August 1862, and served as a private until the late summer of 1865. Beginning in January 1863, Lockney was stationed near Helena, Arkansas for some months, and later at Clarendon, Little Rock, and Pine Bluff, Arkansas. In March 1865, he was transferred to Mobile Point, near Mobile, Alabama, and was in the summer of 1865 at Clarksville and Brownsville, Texas.
