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Submitted: 5/29/14 • Approved: 8/28/19 • Last Updated: 12/21/23 • R1007494-G1007493-S3
CAPTAIN US Army
First Arkansas Infantry
Civil War Confederate
June 3, 1829 - May 13, 1917
S A
Died
August 31, 1908
Aged 62 Years
*Obituary - Arkansas Gazette - May 15, 1917
Emerson - May 14 - Capt. Jesse T. McMahan, aged 87 died Sunday morning at the home of Capt. and Mrs. John D. Wood near Emerson. He was born in Greene county, Illinois, June 3, 1830. Leaving Illinois at the age of 18 years, he came to Arkansas, locating in Camden early in 1850, and from that time was engaged in the steamboat business as pilot, owner, plying between Camden and New Orleans, until the outbreak of the Civil War. In 1861 he enlisted in the First Arkansas Infantry as orderly sergeant and in April, 1862, was made captain of his company in the same regiment. He distinguished himself at the Battle of Shiloh, being let for dead on the battlefield. He was found and removed 48 hours later, barley alive, and shot through the face. October 29, 1863, Captain McMahan was married to Miss Sarah Jones. She died August 31, 1908, without children. The body was taken to Camden last night. Funeral services were held today in the Methodist church there.
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