Macklin
McCurdy
Information
submitted by James David Durham
Macklin McCurdy age thirty-three was mustered into the 1st Alabama and Tennessee Vidette Cavalry, Company B as a sergeant on September 10th, 1863 at Stevenson, Alabama and was mustered out of service on June 16th, 1864 at Stevenson, Alabama. According to a general affidavit signed by Mrs. Adie Mitchell and Mrs. Rhoda L. McCurdy (neighbors of Macklin and Sarah McCurdy at the time) Macklin was captured by a clan of armed men on February 4th 1865. The men claimed to be Confederate home guard and they carried him away from his home. On February 5th 1865 gunfire was heard by neighbors, who went to the spot and found that Macklin had been shot. He was alone and dead. He was carried to his home in a wagon. The neighbors stated that they sat with the body the night of the 6th and attended his funeral on February 7th 1865. The newspaper Nashville Daily Union ran the obituary on February 21st 1865. It states that McCurdy, Macy, who had taken the oath, was shot in the throat and left a naked corpse in the road by guerrillas under Captains Withersoon and Davenport.
