Son of:
Joseph (& Bell) McCown
James M. McCown was a captain in Company K, 6h Kenucky Cavalry (Union) in the Civil War. He was captured April 6, 186 at Sypsie Swamp, AL but held for only two weeks by the Confederates. In mid-April 1865 he was sent to a neutral parole camp near Vicksburg, MS. On April 24, he and almost 2,000 other recently released Union prisoners-of-war were crowded aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana for shipment home. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the Sultana was seven miles above Memphis, TN, the boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people died. Captain McCown was horribly injured in the explosion, suffering severe scalds to his face, neck, lungs and hands, had his left thumb crushed, and lost the mucous membrane off his tongue when he inhaled the hot steam. He survived and was taken to the Officer's Hospital in Memphis. He filed for an Invalid Pension on Dec. 19, 1887 and eventually had his left thumb amputated.
Contributor: Gene Eric Salecker (48476835)
Joseph (& Bell) McCown
James M. McCown was a captain in Company K, 6h Kenucky Cavalry (Union) in the Civil War. He was captured April 6, 186 at Sypsie Swamp, AL but held for only two weeks by the Confederates. In mid-April 1865 he was sent to a neutral parole camp near Vicksburg, MS. On April 24, he and almost 2,000 other recently released Union prisoners-of-war were crowded aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana for shipment home. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the Sultana was seven miles above Memphis, TN, the boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people died. Captain McCown was horribly injured in the explosion, suffering severe scalds to his face, neck, lungs and hands, had his left thumb crushed, and lost the mucous membrane off his tongue when he inhaled the hot steam. He survived and was taken to the Officer's Hospital in Memphis. He filed for an Invalid Pension on Dec. 19, 1887 and eventually had his left thumb amputated.
Contributor: Gene Eric Salecker (48476835)
Son of:
Joseph (& Bell) McCown
James M. McCown was a captain in Company K, 6h Kenucky Cavalry (Union) in the Civil War. He was captured April 6, 186 at Sypsie Swamp, AL but held for only two weeks by the Confederates. In mid-April 1865 he was sent to a neutral parole camp near Vicksburg, MS. On April 24, he and almost 2,000 other recently released Union prisoners-of-war were crowded aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana for shipment home. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the Sultana was seven miles above Memphis, TN, the boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people died. Captain McCown was horribly injured in the explosion, suffering severe scalds to his face, neck, lungs and hands, had his left thumb crushed, and lost the mucous membrane off his tongue when he inhaled the hot steam. He survived and was taken to the Officer's Hospital in Memphis. He filed for an Invalid Pension on Dec. 19, 1887 and eventually had his left thumb amputated.
Contributor: Gene Eric Salecker (48476835)
Joseph (& Bell) McCown
James M. McCown was a captain in Company K, 6h Kenucky Cavalry (Union) in the Civil War. He was captured April 6, 186 at Sypsie Swamp, AL but held for only two weeks by the Confederates. In mid-April 1865 he was sent to a neutral parole camp near Vicksburg, MS. On April 24, he and almost 2,000 other recently released Union prisoners-of-war were crowded aboard the Mississippi steamboat Sultana for shipment home. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the Sultana was seven miles above Memphis, TN, the boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people died. Captain McCown was horribly injured in the explosion, suffering severe scalds to his face, neck, lungs and hands, had his left thumb crushed, and lost the mucous membrane off his tongue when he inhaled the hot steam. He survived and was taken to the Officer's Hospital in Memphis. He filed for an Invalid Pension on Dec. 19, 1887 and eventually had his left thumb amputated.
Contributor: Gene Eric Salecker (48476835)
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