>From The Cork Examiner, 22 October 1863 - A REMARKABLE IRISH VETERAN.--The St. Louis Republican says :--"We saw a regular old veteran of a warrior and a patriot. His name is John T. C. M'Caffrey. He is a native of Ireland, is seventy-three years old, and has had fifteen sons and three daughters. Eleven sons were in the Union army until the seige of Vicksburg, where four of them were killed. The old man himself enlisted in the Tenth Illinois at Fayetteville, Ark., over a year ago, and was letely discharged. He served eight months in the Florida war, twelve months under General Jockson [sic], thirty-two months in the Mexican war, and twelve months in the present war. He has three brothers and three stepsons now in the Union army." - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | Ireland Newspaper Abstracts Acton, Massachusetts | http://www.IrelandOldNews.com - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -