Company D, 27th Michigan Infantry
John C. McMahon was a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and only 14-years-old when he enlisted as a private December 15, 1862. He was mustered into Company D, 27th Michigan Infantry, at Ypsilanti, Michigan, February 24, 1863; at age 16.. He was promoted to Corporal August 2, 1864. He received a gunshot wound at the Battle of Weldon Railroad, Virginia, on August 21, 1864, and was captured by the Confederates. He was interned as a POW at Salsbury Prison, North Carolina, where he was beaten and received a skull fracture in December 1864. After the war ended and he was released from prison he was returned to duty June 5, 1865. He was mustered out at Delaney House, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1865. Sometime later he made his way west, where he was a miner in Cochise County, Arizona, and where he appears on the 1886 membership roster of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 1,067,895. He was single and an unemployed miner at Washington, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, in June 1900. In poor health and unable to work, he was sent by train to Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home on March 15, 1904. He died there just a few weeks later. John McMahon was survived by his sister, Mrs. Mary E. (McMahon) Loomis, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mary and John may have been the children of James McMahan and wife Fanny, who were living in Ann Arbor, according to the 1860 census. Mary was born in February 1852. She married Frank C. Loomis at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 25 Apr 1876. Mary and Frank can be found on the 1900 and 1910 census in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. They had a son, Frederick, whose California death record shows his parents' surnames as Loomis and McMahon.
Military Information: CORPORAL, INFANTRY
John C. McMahon was a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and only 14-years-old when he enlisted as a private December 15, 1862. He was mustered into Company D, 27th Michigan Infantry, at Ypsilanti, Michigan, February 24, 1863; at age 16.. He was promoted to Corporal August 2, 1864. He received a gunshot wound at the Battle of Weldon Railroad, Virginia, on August 21, 1864, and was captured by the Confederates. He was interned as a POW at Salsbury Prison, North Carolina, where he was beaten and received a skull fracture in December 1864. After the war ended and he was released from prison he was returned to duty June 5, 1865. He was mustered out at Delaney House, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1865. Sometime later he made his way west, where he was a miner in Cochise County, Arizona, and where he appears on the 1886 membership roster of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 1,067,895. He was single and an unemployed miner at Washington, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, in June 1900. In poor health and unable to work, he was sent by train to Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home on March 15, 1904. He died there just a few weeks later. John McMahon was survived by his sister, Mrs. Mary E. (McMahon) Loomis, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mary and John may have been the children of James McMahan and wife Fanny, who were living in Ann Arbor, according to the 1860 census. Mary was born in February 1852. She married Frank C. Loomis at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 25 Apr 1876. Mary and Frank can be found on the 1900 and 1910 census in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. They had a son, Frederick, whose California death record shows his parents' surnames as Loomis and McMahon.
Military Information: CORPORAL, INFANTRY
Company D, 27th Michigan Infantry
John C. McMahon was a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and only 14-years-old when he enlisted as a private December 15, 1862. He was mustered into Company D, 27th Michigan Infantry, at Ypsilanti, Michigan, February 24, 1863; at age 16.. He was promoted to Corporal August 2, 1864. He received a gunshot wound at the Battle of Weldon Railroad, Virginia, on August 21, 1864, and was captured by the Confederates. He was interned as a POW at Salsbury Prison, North Carolina, where he was beaten and received a skull fracture in December 1864. After the war ended and he was released from prison he was returned to duty June 5, 1865. He was mustered out at Delaney House, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1865. Sometime later he made his way west, where he was a miner in Cochise County, Arizona, and where he appears on the 1886 membership roster of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 1,067,895. He was single and an unemployed miner at Washington, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, in June 1900. In poor health and unable to work, he was sent by train to Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home on March 15, 1904. He died there just a few weeks later. John McMahon was survived by his sister, Mrs. Mary E. (McMahon) Loomis, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mary and John may have been the children of James McMahan and wife Fanny, who were living in Ann Arbor, according to the 1860 census. Mary was born in February 1852. She married Frank C. Loomis at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 25 Apr 1876. Mary and Frank can be found on the 1900 and 1910 census in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. They had a son, Frederick, whose California death record shows his parents' surnames as Loomis and McMahon.
Military Information: CORPORAL, INFANTRY
John C. McMahon was a resident of Ann Arbor, Michigan, and only 14-years-old when he enlisted as a private December 15, 1862. He was mustered into Company D, 27th Michigan Infantry, at Ypsilanti, Michigan, February 24, 1863; at age 16.. He was promoted to Corporal August 2, 1864. He received a gunshot wound at the Battle of Weldon Railroad, Virginia, on August 21, 1864, and was captured by the Confederates. He was interned as a POW at Salsbury Prison, North Carolina, where he was beaten and received a skull fracture in December 1864. After the war ended and he was released from prison he was returned to duty June 5, 1865. He was mustered out at Delaney House, Washington, D.C., July 26, 1865. Sometime later he made his way west, where he was a miner in Cochise County, Arizona, and where he appears on the 1886 membership roster of Tombstone's Burnside Post, Grand Army of the Republic. He filed for a Civil War veteran's pension and received certificate No. 1,067,895. He was single and an unemployed miner at Washington, Santa Cruz County, Arizona, in June 1900. In poor health and unable to work, he was sent by train to Los Angeles, where he was admitted to the Sawtelle Soldiers' Home on March 15, 1904. He died there just a few weeks later. John McMahon was survived by his sister, Mrs. Mary E. (McMahon) Loomis, of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Mary and John may have been the children of James McMahan and wife Fanny, who were living in Ann Arbor, according to the 1860 census. Mary was born in February 1852. She married Frank C. Loomis at Ann Arbor, Michigan, 25 Apr 1876. Mary and Frank can be found on the 1900 and 1910 census in Grand Rapids, Kent County, Michigan. They had a son, Frederick, whose California death record shows his parents' surnames as Loomis and McMahon.
Military Information: CORPORAL, INFANTRY
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