Born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina in 1838 to Samuel M. and Mary (Johnston) Lowrie.
Fell on the 1st day of the Battle of Gettysburg and was buried on a local farm alongside his friends Lt. Thomas Cooper and Lt. Edward Rhodes.
Removed to Green Mount Cemetery by the mother of Lt. Edward Rhodes, Mrs. Mary Rhodes, and Mrs. Adeline Egerton.
James graduated in 1859 from Davidson College in Mecklenburg. At the outbreak of war, he was a practicing attorney.
His brothers would also serve the Confederacy. Captain Patrick Johnston Lowrie also served in Co. H, 11th NC as the commissary officer. He died of disease on 12 Jul 1862 in Wilmington, NC. Captain Houston B. Lowrie would serve with Co. C, 6th North Carolina Infantry and was killed at the Battle of Antietam on 17 Sep 1862. Captain Samuel Lowrie served with the 8th Texas Rangers, surrendering with his regiment near Greensboro, NC in April 1865. Samuel would be the only brother to survive the war, passing way in 1892 in DeLand, Florida.
