Article from CONFEDERATE VETERAN mag.,
dated 1902, page 124.
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CAPT. R.C. REED writes from Brick, Ala.:

One of the most manly and popular of men was our late comrade, DR. J.R. McDONALD, who died at his home in Courtland, Ala.,Jan.4, 1902. He was born near Athens, Ala., March 6, 1843. He was a student at the Wesleyan University at Florence when the war broke out and promptly laid aside his books and enlisted as a private in Co. H, 9th Ala. Infantry, commanded by Maj. Jere H. J. WILLIAMS, and was mustered in at Lynchburg, Va., June 10, 1861. When the company was organized, comrade McDONALD was made second
lieutenant, though but 18 years old, and was afterwards made captain of the company for gallantry. He served through the war, though wounded several times and was finally made lieutenant colonel, but the war closed before he received his commission. After the war he studied medicine and in 1867 was graduated at the University of Nashville, Tenn., and began practice in his native county. After 1891 he resided in Courtland. In 1868 Dr. McDONALD
married a granddaughter of " Light Horse" Harry LEE, who died in 1890 and in 1893 he married MRS. LILLIE FOSTER, who is left to mourn his loss.