LOSS OF THE SULTANA - REMINISCENCES OF SURVIVORS
George J. JOHNSON
I WAS born in Philipsburg, Alleghany county, N. Y., May 18, 1840, and enlisted in
the service of the United States at Hudson, Lenawee county, Mich., August 21,
1862, in Company A, 18th Regiment Michigan Infantry, and was captured at Athens,
Ala., September 24th and confined in the Cahaba, Ala., prison.
When the explosion took place I lay between the smoke stacks asleep. I remember
jumping into the water, but knew no more until about sunrise, when I was picked
up on the Arkansas aide by the picket boat "Pocahontas."
Occupation, farming. Postoffice address, Medina, Lenawee county, Mich.
(Reminiscences also linked in Full List of Men)
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