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Surnames: CALLAGHAN
Classification: Death
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Evening Star, Washington, DC, Friday, February 21, 1918
COL JOHN T CALLAGHAN, MOSBY RAIDER, DEAD
Body of Veteran to Lie in State at Confederate Memorial Hall
Col John T Callaghan, Confederate veteran and life-long resident of the District, died
yesterday afternoon at his home, in the Cumberland apartment house, 14th street and
Massachusetts avenue
The body will lie in state in Confederate memorial Hall from 10 o’clock Sunday morning
until 9 o’clock Monday morning, when funeral mass will be said in St Patrick’s Church.
Burial will be in the Confederate section of Arlington cemetery. Camp 171, United
Confederate Veterans, will hold memorial exercises over the body at their hall at 3
o’clock Sunday afternoon.
Col Callaghan was born in this city April 13, 1842. At the age of seventeen he went to
Richmond and at the outbreak of the war he enlisted in the Confederate army as a private.
He was in twelve general engagements, including Gettysburg.
At the battle of Cedar Mountain, August 9, 1862, he was wounded in one hip by shell fire.
On another occasion he was taken prisoner and held for several months. He finally got
back to Richmond, but being unable to reach his own command, he attached himself to the
command of Col. John S Mosby.
With ninety of Mosby’s men, he surrendered to General Hancock of the Union Army at
Winchester, Va., on April 22, 1865. At the close of the war he came to Washington and was
arrested by federal authorities and held as prisoner for a brief period. He spent several
years after the war in Texas, but soon returned to the District.
Upon his return from Texas he accepted a position in the government printing office and
was later transferred to the Post Office Department, where he was employed until his
death.