James Wood Bush was an American Union Navy sailor of British and Native Hawaiian descent. Enlisted in the Union Navy in 1864, Bush served as a sailor aboard USS Vandalia and the captured Confederate vessel USS Beauregard. He was discharged from service in 1865 after an injury, which developed into a chronic condition in later life. Bush converted to Mormonism and became an active member of the Hawaiian Mission.
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James Wood Bush was an American Union Navy sailor of British and Native Hawaiian descent. Enlisted in the Union Navy in 1864, Bush served as a sailor aboard USS Vandalia and the captured Confederate vessel USS Beauregard. He was discharged from service in 1865 after an injury, which developed into a chronic condition in later life. After the annexation of Hawaii to the United States, Bush was recognized for his military service, and in 1905 was granted a government pension for the injuries he received in the Navy. In later life, he converted to Mormonism and became an active member of the Hawaiian Mission. In 2010, the \”Hawaiʻi Sons of the Civil War\” were commemorated with a bronze plaque erected along the memorial pathway at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu.
The date of his birth is uncertain; sources claim it to be October 1844, 1845, or 1847–1848. His older brother was John Edward Bush, who became a newspaper publisher and politician, serving as royal governor of Kaua’i and a cabinet minister under the reign of King Kalākaua. In 1882, his older brother, in his capacity of the Interior Minister, appointed Bush as the District Road Supervisor for the District of Hanalei to replace Christian Bertlemann, who had resigned to become bishop of the Latter-day Saints in Kealia, Kauai. After returning to Hawaii, he was listed as the tax collector of Kawhauai, in 1880, he became the bishop of Kawai, and hosted Mormon missionary work in the islands.
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