James A. McKamy was released from Fort Delaware during the summer of 1865. He returned to Blount County, Tennessee, and resumed his mercantile business. He later moved to Spring Place near Dalton, Georgia.

While residing in the Dalton area, September 3, 1874, The North Georgia Citizen recorded, "Sabbath Services at the Presbyterian Church in Spring Place were unusually interesting and impressive. Rev. Jones preached to a large and attractive audience in his usual felicitous style. Col. James A. McKamy was ordained Elder and sacrament administered to a goodly number of communicants." 

James Mckamy died in 1898 at the home of a fellow legion veteran--Lieutenant James A. Robison, Company E, Walker's Battalion.

Sources:

Vernon H. Crow, Storm in the Mountains; The North Georgia Citizen, September 3, 1874 (currently: The Daily Citizen); and Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies.

Notes:

Today, Dalton, Georgia, is about an hour's drive north of Atlanta and only 25 minutes south of Chattanooga on Interstate 75. The Dalton area is home to the largest carpet industries in the world, which gives it the title as the Carpet Capital of the World.