Inducted 30 April 1861 in St. Clair, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania
Muster 1Inducted 30 April 1861 in St. Clair, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania
Muster 1Inducted 30 April 1861 in St. Clair, Schuylkill, Pennsylvania
MusterOn 5 November 1863, 14 year old Albert McCain was inducted in the Union Army in Kingston, Roane County, Tennessee for a period of three years. While he was part of the regiment it was engaged in skirmishes in Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama.
He was mustered into Company I of the 3rd East Tennessee Cavalry Regiment as a private. The muster rolls for the company show the following for him:
There are some reports that he was captured by Nathan Bedford Forrest's troops at the battle of Sulphur Creek Trestle in Alabama. He was sent to a prison on the Cahaba River in Alabama or one in Andersonville, Georgia. He was released from prison in April 1865 and taken to a parole camp at Vicksburg, Mississippi.
Albert was one of the 2500 paroled prisoners that boarded the steamboat Sultana on 24 April 1865 in Vicksburg as it went north from New Orleans. The legal capacity of the Sultana was 376 so it was grossly overloaded.
At around 2:00 AM on April 27, 1865, when the Sultana was about seven miles north of Memphis, Tennessee its boilers suddenly exploded. First one exploded followed by two more. Between 1500 and 1800 people were killed. There is no accurate record because many of the bodies were never recovered and some of the passengers had disembarked in Memphis.
Albert's widowed mother, Mary McCain had been dependent on him for support before he Inducted. When he didn't return from the war she filed an application for an army pension on 31 October 1865. During the war she was living on the family farm. According to the application the farm was located "on the wagon road leading from Decatur to Kingston, about thirteen miles from Decatur the county seat of Meigs County, Tennessee".
A report from the Adjutant General's Office dated 19 April 1866 affirmed that Albert must have died in the explosion on the Sultana even though there was no record of his death.
Victor was inducted in the Marine Corps on 2 September 1915 at Salt Lake City, Utah. On 1 November 1915 he was mustered into Company B of 30th Marine Barracks on Mare Island near Vallejo, California.
His mother, Hannah Iverson who was living alone in Kaolin, Clark, Nevada became very ill. Victor was discharged 24 January 1916 so he could take care of her.
Inducted 13 January 1941 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Death 22 June 1945 in Luzon, Philippines.
Inducted 20 January 1942 in Los Angeles, California. he was wounded on the island of Saipan and was killed 25 February 1945 on Iwo Jima island. He is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Inducted 5 August 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah. He was a tail-gunner in a B-17 bomber. He was killed on 11 September 1944 when the bomber he was in was shot down over Germany.
Inducted 21 November 1942 in Ogden, Utah. Discharged 12 November 1945 in Norman, Oklahoma.
Inducted 13 February 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Discharged 25 July 1946 in Shoemaker, California
Inducted 9 December 1943 in Salt Lake City, Utah. Discharged 22 April 1946.
Inducted 25 October 1944 at Fort Douglas in Salt lake City, Utah. Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law.
Discharged 15 December 1945.
Inducted on 26 December 1944 at Fort Douglas in Salt Lake, Utah for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law.
Inducted on 29 October 1945 at Army Air Field in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada
Discharged 2 January 1947.
The muster roll for the U. S. S. Current shows him as a member of the crew with an enlistment date of 5 August 1946.
Enlistment 19 August 1950. Wounded in Korea discharged 31 August 1952.